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▪ I. hoon, n.1 India.|huːn|
Also hun.
[Hindi (Skr. hūna).]
A gold coin, the pagoda.
1807F. Buchanan Journ. Madras II. 310 Huns, or Pagodas. 1876J. Grant Hist. India I. xxvi. 140/1 The pagoda..was called a hoon by the Mohammedans, and a varaha by the Hindoos. 1877J. Dowson H. M. Elliot's Hist. India VII. 84 Part of the two lacs of huns (pagodas), which was the stipulated amount of his annual tribute. 1962R. A. G. Carson Coins 508 Gold was struck in two denominations, the heavier hun or pagoda and the smaller fanam.
▪ II. hoon, n.2 Austral. slang.|huːn|
[Origin unknown.]
A lout, a rough; a crazy person, a ‘clot’; a ponce.
1938X. Herbert Capricornia xxi. 309 ‘You flash hoon,’ he went on. ‘Kiddin’ you're white, eh?’ 1953Baker Australia Speaks v. 124 Women whose activities are not organised by hoons..are called battlers. 1965Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 July 8/4 Hoon, a crackpot. 1967Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 9 July 32/4 Two louts..walked up behind him. The biggest hoon ruffled up his hair and tried to put his half-smoked cigarette in the young man's hair. 1969Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 Jan. 2/4 Advertising these locations [sc. of radar speed traps], also advertises the locations where they are not being used, thus giving the hot-rod hoons an open go.
▪ III. hoon, v. colloq. (orig. and chiefly Austral. and N.Z.).
Brit. |huːn|, U.S. |hun|
[‹ hoon n.2]
intr. To behave in a loutish or irresponsible way; spec. to drive fast or recklessly. Usu. with around. Cf. hoon n.2
1983Let. 21 Oct. in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) 358/2 He likes to hoon round on his bike. 1986Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 30 Mar. They enjoy ‘hooning around town’. 1990Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Feb. He cracked jokes, sparked waterfights with the team's trainer.., and generally hooned around throughout the season. 2000M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xv. 411, I squeezed the last drop of speed out of the E-type hooning down the motorway towards the coast. 2006Mirror (Nexis) 2 June 54 Despite the weedy 1.3-litre engine and the shopping trolleysized 14ins alloy wheels, I found myself hooning around in the thing as though it was a Subaru Impreza rally car.
▪ IV. hoon(e)
obs. ff. hone. |