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Goon vs Hoon - What's the difference?

goon | hoon |

As nouns the difference between goon and hoon

is that goon is gold while hoon is (australia|slang|dated) a pimp or hoon can be (dated) a unit of weight, used to measure opium in british-controlled china.

As a verb hoon is

(australia|new zealand|slang) to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

goon

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)
  • A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
  • A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 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.}}
  • (ice hockey, pejorative)  An enforcer or fighter.
    • Derived terms
    * goony * goon squad
    See also
    * goonie * gooney * gooney bird

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive slang for flagon.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
  • * 2009 , , Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music , page 11,
    • We drank goons of cheap wine.
  • (Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
  • * 2010 , , The Mary Smokes Boys , unnumbered page,
    • ‘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.’
  • * 2010 , Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World , page 384,
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like , unnumbered page,
    • 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 wine

    Anagrams

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    hoon

    English

    Etymology 1

    Uncertain origin. Pimp sense from early 20th c.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.
  • * 2010 , Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop , page 86,
    • When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.
  • (Australia, slang) A lout.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
  • * 2009 , Victoria Police Home Page, State of Victoria,
    • Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006.
  • * 2009 , Damien Broderick, Rory Barnes, I'm Dying Here , page 29,
    • The hoons piled out of the wreck brimming with righteous road rage, and were setlling to the task of beating the shit out of Wozza, Mutton and the hapless wheelman when they discovered the plastic bag.
    Derived terms
    *hoonish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

    • External links

    * http://www.stensrude.com/Oz.html
  • hoon

    • Etymology 2

    From Chinese.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A unit of weight, used to measure opium in British-controlled China.
  • * 1860 , James Aberigh Mackay, From London to Lucknow , Volume 2, page 553,
    • Their average consumption was six hoons'. The greatest daily consumption by one man was fifteen ' hoons ; the smallest, two. The average number of years they had been addicted to the smoking of opium was seven years and some odd months.
  • * 2005 , Derek Mackay, Eastern Customs: The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium , page 141,
    • The average smoker used only four hoons''''', leaving him 36 '''''hoons , nearly half an ounce, to sell on the black market.

    Anagrams

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