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.