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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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gon
Translingual
Symbol
gon
- (ISO symbol) gradian
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.
Contraction
gon
- (US, dialectal) Alternative form of gonna
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ????? (g?nía, “angle”)
Noun
gon (plural gons)
- (geometry, trigonometry) One hundredth of a right angle; a gradian.
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping.
Noun
gon (plural gons)
- (rail transport) Abbreviation of gondola car.
Anagrams
- NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog
Breton
Noun
gon
- Soft mutation of kon.
Finnish
Noun
gon
- Genitive singular form of go.
Japanese
Romanization
gon
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English g?n, from Proto-West Germanic *g?n, from Proto-Germanic *g?n?, compare German gehen. Past tense supplied by Old English wendan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijan?, or a suppletive stem yed-, yod-, from Old English ?od-.
Alternative forms
- (Northern ME) gan, ga
- goo, goon, go
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n/
- (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Verb
gon
- to go
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: go
- Northumbrian: gan
- Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
- Yola: goe
References
- “g?n, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old English g?n, ?eg?n, past participle of g?n (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *g?naz, past participle of *g?n? (“to go”); equivalent to gon +? -en.
Alternative forms
- gone, igon, gan, ?egan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n/
- (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Verb
gon
- past participle of gon (“to go”)
Descendants
- English: gone
- Scots: gane
- Yola: ee-go
Etymology 3
From Lady Gunilda; a name for a crossbow. More at English gun.
Noun
gon
- Alternative form of gunne
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gonô, from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“to strike, kill”).
Verb
gon (past ghon, future gonaidh, verbal noun gonadh, past participle gonte)
- hurt, prick, wound
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From English gun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?on/
Noun
gon
- gun
Teojomulco Chatino
Etymology
Cognate with Tataltepec Chatino ncu? (“tortoise”), Western Highland Chatino nkuun? (“tortoise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nkõ/, [??õ]
Noun
gon
- armadillo
References
- Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016) , “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics?[1], page [5]
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