Goon vs Drunk - What's the difference?
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A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
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, chapter=5 (ice hockey, pejorative) An enforcer or fighter.
(Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
* 2009 , , Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music ,
(Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
* 2010 , , The Mary Smokes Boys ,
* 2010 , Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World ,
* 2011 , E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like ,
In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
* Macaulay
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
* 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
A drunken state.
* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
As nouns the difference between goon and drunk
is that goon is gold while drunk is a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.As an adjective drunk is
in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.As a verb drunk is
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English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (gooney), from obsolete gony'' ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. ''Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). Goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921). * The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character series. * The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon , born rather too early she suspected.}}
Derived terms
* goony * goon squadSee also
* goonie * gooney * gooney birdEtymology 2
Diminutive slang for flagon.Noun
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- We drank goons of cheap wine.
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- ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek.’
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- With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It?s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it?s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we?ve consumed this trip.
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- Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon , mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.
Synonyms
* box wine * cask wineAnagrams
* Australian English ----drunk
English
Adjective
(er)- Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- drunk with recent prosperity
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Synonyms
* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tankNoun
(en noun)- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
- Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!