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    1 year ago

    That got me curious so I searched :

    loon

    noun
    1- Any of several fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia of northern regions, having a short tail, webbed feet, and a laughlike cry.
    2- One who is crazy or deranged.
    3- A stupid fellow; a clown: with various shades of intensity as an opprobrious epithet, like fool, dolt, etc.

    lunatic

    noun
    1- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
    2- A very foolish person.
    3- A person affected with lunacy; specifically, an insane person who has lucid intervals, or one whose unsoundness of mind is acquired, not congenital, as distinguished from an idiot.