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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOON, n.
1. A sorry fellow; a rogue; a rascal.
2. A sea-fowl of the genus colymbus.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a worthless lazy fellow
2: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver]
3: a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought [syn: addle-head, addlehead, loon, birdbrain]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English loun Date: 15th century 1. lout, idler 2. chiefly Scottish boy 3. a. a crazy person b. simpleton II. noun Etymology: of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse l?mr loon Date: 1634 any of several large birds (genus Gavia of the family Gaviidae) of Holarctic regions that feed on fish by diving and have their legs placed far back under the body for optimal locomotion underwater

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 US any aquatic diving bird of the family Gaviidae, with a long slender body and a sharp bill; a diver. 2 colloq. a crazy person (cf. LOONY). Etymology: alt. f. loom f. ON lómr

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loon Loon, n. [Scot. loun, lown, loon; akin to OD. loen a stupid man; prob. for an older lown, and akin to E. lame.] A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loon Loon, n. [For older loom, Icel. l?mr; akin to Dan. & Sw. lom.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (U. septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. (Ornith.) Great northern diver, ember-goose (Columbus glacialis). 2. Simpleton, fool, dunce, blockhead, loggerhead.

Moby Thesaurus

Boeotian, aliene, bedlamite, block, borderline case, clod, crackbrain, crackpot, dement, demoniac, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, energumen, fanatic, flake, fou, gowk, idiot, jobbernowl, kook, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, meshuggenah, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, non compos, noncompos, nut, phrenetic, put, raving lunatic, screwball, stupid, thickwit, weirdo, witling