loons in English

noun

1

a silly or foolish person.

Prizes should be delivered to the TV director who cut to their box in time to catch him grinning like a loon , boffing a balloon about with his feet and hands.

synonyms: fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, moron, imbecile, simpleton, lunatic, dope, ninny, nincompoop, dimwit, jackass, blockhead, jughead, bonehead, knucklehead, fathead, numbskull, dumb-ass, dunderhead, ditz, dipstick, thickhead, meathead, meatball, wooden-head, airhead, pinhead, butthead, lamebrain, peabrain, birdbrain, mouth-breather, jerk, nitwit, twit, boob, loony, nut, nutcase, nutjob, fruitcake, crank, crackpot, screwball, crazy, kook, wacko, dingbat

2

a large diving waterbird with a sleek black or gray head, a straight pointed bill, and short legs set far back under the body. Loons breed by lakes in northern latitudes and have wailing calls.

All other birds, from loons and penguins to woodpeckers and sparrows, are placed together in the third main lineage, the Neoaves.

noun

fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, moron, imbecile, simpleton, lunatic, dope, ninny, nincompoop, dimwit, jackass, blockhead, jughead, bonehead, knucklehead, fathead, numbskull, dumb-ass, dunderhead, ditz, dipstick, thickhead, meathead, meatball, wooden-head, airhead, pinhead, butthead, lamebrain, peabrain, birdbrain, mouth-breather, jerk, nitwit, twit, boob, loony, nut, nutcase, nutjob, fruitcake, crank, crackpot, screwball, crazy, kook, wacko, dingbat
diver
birdbrain, addle-head, addlehead

Use "loons" in a sentence

1. Chemical pollution from acid rain reduces the fish stocks on which loons depend.

2. Having large webbed feet, loons are efficient predators, powerful swimmers, and adroit divers.

3. Eleven families of birds, including loons, grebes and most waterfowl, have this moult strategy.

4. Ruby Wax found some real wackos in West Virginia-loons who use poisonous snakes in religious ceremonies.

5. Minnesota United is near Acquiring Argentine striker Ramon Abila, a former teammate of Loons star Emanuel Reynoso when both played for their …

6. A total of 17 different groups of seabirds were taken into account, including: loons, grebes, fulmars and petrels, shearwaters, pelicans, cormorants, shorebirds, gulls and kittawakes, terns, skimmers, and Alcids

7. According to Hackett et al. (2008), loons, penguins, storks, and as well as Suliformes and Pelecaniformes, all seem to have evolved from a common ancestor.

8. Koonz, Wildlife Branch, Manitoba Department of Natural Resources, pers. commun.). Similarly, Common Loons are absent or extremely rare and localized in the prairie potholes of southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta (as shown by BBS; Sauer et al.