Hoon vs Coon - What's the difference?
hoon | coon |
(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 ,
(informal, chiefly, Southern US) A raccoon.
*1963 Sterling North, Rascal , Avon Books (softcover), p 100:
(racial slur) A black person.
*1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 149:
(informal, South Africa) A person who is a member of a colourfully dressed dancing troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
(ethnic slur) A coonass.
(Southern US, colloquial) To hunt racoons.
(Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
* Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”, Outing , W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216:
* 1957 , The Arkansas Historical Quarterly , volume XVI, Arkansas Historical Association:
* 1982 , Edwin Van Syckle, The River Pioneers'', ''Early Days on Grays Harbor , Pacific Search Press, page 186:
(Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
(African American Vernacular English) For an African American, to play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
* 1994 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks'', ''An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films , page 234:
* 1999 , Nelson George, Elevating the Game'', ''Black Men and Basketball , U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803270852, page 52:
* 2005 , Kermit Ernest Campbell, “gettin’ our groove on”'', ''rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation , Wayne State University Press, ISBN 081432925X, page 80:
* 2006 , A. Khaulid, The Great Book of Fire , Damon Hunter, ISBN 1427602417, page 142:
(Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
* 1940 , John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men , Robert Hale Limited, page 58:
* 1948 , John Donald Kingsley, The Antioch Review , volume VIII:
* 1968 , Bill Adler (compiler), Jay David (editor), Growing Up Black , Morrow, page 200:
* 2006 , Timothy M. Gay, Tris Speaker'', ''The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend , U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803222068, page 37:
As nouns the difference between hoon and coon
is that hoon is a pimp while coon is a raccoon.As verbs the difference between hoon and coon
is that hoon is to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly while coon is to hunt racoons.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
* ----coon
English
Noun
(en noun)- How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon ?
- ‘Listen, Mr Du Toit,’ he said at last, in an obvious effort to sound light-hearted. ‘Why go to all this trouble for the sake of a bloody coon ?’
Derived terms
* coon cat * coonhound * coon hound * coonskin * coon's ageVerb
(en verb)- There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “cooning ” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair.
- 2 o'clock we float up to Duvall's landing—high bluff, store house, and a few dwelling houses. Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie.
- “Advertising” was one problem for frontier women. Another was having to “coon ” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully.
- Rather than cooning or tomming it up to please whites... the black comic characters joked or laughed or acted the fool with one another. Or sometimes they used humor combatively to outwit the white characters.
- If any other forties figure paralleled this humorous, graceful man in appeal it was the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who, like the Trotter, funneled his extraordinary physical gifts into mass entertainment for whites yet remarkably, considering the time, avoided cooning .
- From the classic toasts to the dirty dozens to the early blues50 and now to gangsta rap lyrics—why not consider it all just a bunch of n****** cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?
- Then the warrior appeared, in a manner that was dead serious as a heart attack wearing a baseball cap. Then came the sidekick, a jet black madman dancing, and almost cooning out of the shadows that cancelled him.
- Cooning water-melons [sic. ] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster.
- He kept on buying and selling horses, he said, sometimes paying for them in bogus, and sometimes cooning them. It was true he helped Malcolm Burnham break into Fred Able’s store
- In the summertime, at night, in addition to all the other things we did, some of us boys would slip out down the road, or across the pastures and go “cooning ” watermelons.
- Tris and his gang loved to prowl around at night, “cooning melons,” as Speaker put it in a 1920 interview. By all accounts, young Master Speaker was a handful.
