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Zoon vs Hoon - What's the difference?

zoon | hoon |

As nouns the difference between zoon and hoon

is that zoon is an alternative spelling of lang=en while hoon is a pimp.

As a verb hoon is

to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

zoon

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • (biology):
  • # An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
  • # Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

    • Quotations

    * 1864 , (Herbert Spencer), (Principles of Biology) , page 205, §?73 (1868 reprint; D. Appleton & Co.) *: [… A] zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon'' , or by any such group of animals as the numerous ''Medusæ'' that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as ''zooids .

    Antonyms

    * (an animal which is the sole product of a single egg) zooid (Webster 1913)

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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.

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