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goon
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). Goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921).
- The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
- The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
- The "guard" sense was influenced by both senses 1 and 2, though not by the Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.
Noun
goon (plural goons)
- A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
- A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
- (ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.
- (Britain, WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
- (Internet slang) A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.
Derived terms
- goony
- goon baiting
- goon squad
Translations
See also
- goonie
- gooney
- gooney bird
Etymology 2
Perhaps diminutive slang for flagon or from Aboriginal English goom.
Noun
goon (uncountable)
- (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
- 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,
- We drank goons of cheap wine.
- 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,
- (Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
- 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,
- ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek. […] ’
- 2010, Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World, page 384,
- With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It?s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it?s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we?ve consumed this trip.
- 2011, E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like, unnumbered page,
- Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon, mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.
- 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,
Synonyms
- box wine
- cask wine
Anagrams
- gono-, no go, no-go, nogo, noog, ongo
Esperanto
Noun
goon
- accusative singular of goo
Japanese
Romanization
goon
- R?maji transcription of ???
Middle English
Verb
goon
- Alternative form of gon (“to go”)
Ojibwe
Noun
goon anim (obviative goonan, diminutive goonens, locative gooning, distributive locative goonikaang)
- snow
- Gii-gichi-onzaamiino goon gii-biboonagak.
- There was a lot of snow this winter.
- Gii-gichi-onzaamiino goon gii-biboonagak.
Derived terms
- goonikaa
Related terms
- -aagon-
See also
- zoogipon
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/goon-na
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goby
English
Etymology
From Latin gobius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (k?biós), a type of small fish, of unknown ultimate origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???ub?/
Noun
goby (plural goby or gobies)
- Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
- A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio.
Derived terms
- black goby
- burrowing goby
- common goby (Pomatoschistus microps)
- dwarfgoby, dwarf goby
- prawn goby
- reefgoby
- shrimp goby
- true goby (Gobiidae)
Translations
See also
- mudskipper
References
- goby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Gobiidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Gobiidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Gudgeon (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- bogy, boyg
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