Hoon vs Choon - What's the difference?
hoon | choon |
(Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.
* 2010 , Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop ,
(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 ,
* 2009 , Damien Broderick, Rory Barnes, I'm Dying Here ,
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
hoon
(dated) A unit of weight, used to measure opium in British-controlled China.
* 1860 , James Aberigh Mackay, From London to Lucknow , Volume 2,
* 2005 , Derek Mackay, Eastern Customs: The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium ,
(British, nonstandard) A song or track, especially one that is catchy.
* 2000 , E Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Channer, Marcus Major, Got to Be Real: Four Original Love Stories
* 2003 , Colin Channer, Waiting in Vain
* 2005 , David Else, Oliver Berry, England
As nouns the difference between hoon and choon
is that hoon is (australia|slang|dated) a pimp or hoon can be (dated) a unit of weight, used to measure opium in british-controlled china while choon is (british|nonstandard) a song or track, especially one that is catchy.As a verb hoon
is (australia|new zealand|slang) to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.hoon
English
Etymology 1
Uncertain origin. Pimp sense from early 20th c.Noun
(en noun)page 86,
- When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.
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.
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
*hoonishVerb
(en verb)External links
* http://www.stensrude.com/Oz.htmlEtymology 2
From Chinese.Noun
(en noun)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.
page 141,
- The average smoker used only four hoons''''', leaving him 36 '''''hoons , nearly half an ounce, to sell on the black market.
Anagrams
* ----choon
English
Noun
(en noun)- And the music was so sweet, see because we just knew the choon . And we could have played a hundred choons that night...
- Behind her, beneath the thatch-roofed pavilions, the guests were skanking to old rock-steady choons and slamming dominoes on plastic tables...
- A sleek cosmopolitan club with mainstream choons .