Hooned vs Nooned - What's the difference?
hooned | nooned |
(hoon)
(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 ,
(noon)
(obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
(obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
* 1885', When night was at its '''noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17:
(figurative) The highest point; culmination.
* Motley
To relax or sleep around midday
* 1906 , (Andy Adams), The Double Trail
*:Well, we crossed and nooned , lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around.
* 1889 , (Mark Twain), (w, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
*:Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
* 1853 , (Theodore Winthrop), The Canoe and the Saddle
*:We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning , the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
As verbs the difference between hooned and nooned
is that hooned is past tense of hoon while nooned is past tense of noon.hooned
English
Verb
(head)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
* ----nooned
English
Verb
(head)noon
English
(wikipedia noon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.Noun
(en noun)- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Antonyms
* (middle of the night) midnightSee also
*Verb
(en verb)Chapter XX