kookdom

English

Etymology

From kook +‎ -dom.

Noun

kookdom (uncountable)

1. (slang) The state or quality of being a kook; eccentricity, weirdness.

   Synonyms: kookery, kookiness, kookishness

   • 1972 November 27, T.E.K., “Kook in a Candy Store”, in Time, volume 100, number 22, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., The Theater, page 73:

     […] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap laughs, and not producing many of them at that.

   • 2000 April 4, Dave Cunningham, “Re: Children at risk on CompuServe forums ?”, in alt.online-service.compuserve‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Inasmuch as I answered you in as much detail as is humanly possible, and you elided all of the answer, it would appear you are just resorting to kookdom now.