Loon Common

Loon has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

a worthless lazy fellow

"After working overtime for weeks, I was furious to see my manager let that loon off early again."

loon

large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes

"We spotted a loon gliding silently across the frozen lake before it dove deep for a hidden fish."

loon diver

a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought

"After months of trying to convince everyone that aliens built our local pizza shop, I finally had to admit he was just a loon."

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An idler, a lout.

"The sudden yodeling cry from overhead made us all jump as a loon dove into the cold lake to catch a fish."

Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.