different between hoodlum vs vandal

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

From Vandal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vænd?l/
• Rhymes: -ænd?l

Noun

vandal (plural vandals)

1. A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages other people's property.

Synonyms

• destroyer
• ruiner
• wrecker

Derived terms

Translations

Czech

Noun

vandal m

1. vandal (person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages other people's property)

Further reading

• vandal in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• vandal in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English vandal.

Noun

vandal m (genitive singular vandal, plural vandallyn)

1. (historical) vandal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin vandali (plural)

Noun

vandal m (definite singular vandalen, indefinite plural vandaler, definite plural vandalene)

1. (modern-day) a vandal
2. (historical) a Vandal

Derived terms

• vandalsk

References

• “vandal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin vandali (plural)

Noun

vandal m (definite singular vandalen, indefinite plural vandalar, definite plural vandalane)

1. (modern-day) a vandal
2. (historical) a Vandal

Derived terms

• vandalsk

References

• “vandal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French vandale.

Noun

vandal m (plural vandali)

1. vandal
2. Vandal

Declension