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Horned vs Hooned - What's the difference?

horned | hooned |

As verbs the difference between horned and hooned

is that horned is past tense of horn while hooned is past tense of hoon.

As an adjective horned

is having horns.

horned

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(-)
  • Having horns.
    • A goat is an example of a horned animal.
  • * Coleridge
    • The horned moon with one bright star / Within the nether tip.
    Synonyms
    * cornigerous
    Derived terms
    * African horned cucumber * horned desert viper * horned dilemma * horned frog * horned gopher * horned grebe * horned lark * horned lizard * horned melon * horned owl * horned puffin * horned rattlesnake * horned screamer * horned snake * horned sphere * horned toad * Saharan horned viper

    See also

    * horny * cuckold

    Etymology 2

    See (horn) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (horn)

    • Anagrams

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    hooned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hoon)

    • 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.

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