magnoon
/maɡˈnuːn
/adjective Australian /NZ informal
Mad or eccentric: during the night a camel went magnoon and chased round the lines...
- I showed him my revolver and told him if they went magnoon again we should shoot.
- Over this interesting discovery they fairly went magnoon.
- Their language, when a camel went mangoon, was simply shocking.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Egyptian Arabic majnūn 'possessed', a word encountered by British troops during the Siege of Khartoum and subsequently widely used by Australian troops during the First World War.
- a sack of potatoes
- a safe pair of hands
- asafetida
- as a first (or last or final) resort
- asafoetida
- as against
- as a general rule
- as always
- as a matter of fact
- as American as apple pie
- asana
- as and when
- a sandwich (or two sandwiches) short of a picnic
- Asansol
- Asante
- ASAP
- asarabacca
- as artful (or clever) as a wagonload (or cartload) of monkeys
- as a rule
- Asatru
- as Australian as meat pie
- as a whole
- ASB
- (as) bald as a coot
- asbestine