different between hoodlum vs delinquent

English

Etymology

First attested in a December 1866 Daily Alta California article, which mentions "the 'Hoodlum Gang' of juvenile thieves". Several possible origins have been proposed. It may derive from a Germanic word like Swabian hudelum (“disorderly”) or Bavarian Haderlump (“ragamuffin”).

Herbert Asbury's book The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (1933, A. A. Knopf, New York) says the word originated in San Francisco from a particular street gang's call to unemployed Irishmen to "huddle 'em" (to beat up Chinese migrants), after which San Francisco newspapers took to calling street gangs "hoodlums".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hu?dl?m/, /?h?dl?m/
• Hyphenation: hood?lum

Noun

hoodlum (plural hoodlums)

1. A gangster; a hired thug.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:criminal
2. A rough or violent youth.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker

Usage notes

• A short form, "hood," also exists.
• A nonstandard, jocular plural hoodla (treating the word like a Latin noun) also exists.
• The behavior of a hoodlum may be referred to as "hoodlumism."

Translations

References

Further reading

• “Frederick Bee History Project”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[2], accessed October 4, 2014

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??l??kw?nt/

Adjective

delinquent (comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent)

1. Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

   Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.

   The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.

2. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

Synonyms

• (late or failing to pay a debt): defaulting

Derived terms

• delinquency
• juvenile delinquent
• moral delinquent

Translations

Noun

delinquent (plural delinquents)

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
2. A person who has not paid his or her debts.
3. (obsolete, derogatory) A term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642-1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:criminal

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?linquens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?.li?k??nt/, /?de?.l???k??nt/
• Hyphenation: de?lin?quent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

delinquent m (plural delinquenten, diminutive delinquentje n)

1. criminal

   Synonyms: crimineel, misdadiger

Related terms

• delinquant (obsolete)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: delinkwent

Latin

Verb

d?linquent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of d?linqu?