different between hoon vs foon

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hu?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hun/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.

Noun

hoon (plural hoons)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout. [From 1930s.]
2. (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp. [From 1950s.]
   • 2009, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop, Melbourne: Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-438-9; republished Melbourne, Black Inc., 2010, ISBN 978-1-86395-482-2, page 85:

     When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.

3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars. [From 1980s.]
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something. [From 1980s.]

Derived terms

• hoonish

Translations

Verb

hoon (third-person singular simple present hoons, present participle hooning, simple past and past participle hooned)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) To act loutishly; specifically, to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative.

Verb

hoon (third-person singular simple present hoons, present participle hooning, simple past and past participle hooned)

1. To make a hooting or howling sound.
   • 1910, William Hope Hodgson, “The Whistling Room”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine^[5], London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 34617117, page 606; republished in Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913, OCLC 13117415:

     All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Min Nan ? (hun) (Mandarin ? (f?n)). Doublet of fen.

Noun

hoon (plural hoons)

1. (historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (h?n, “pagoda, a gold coin of Southern India”), from Sanskrit ??? (h?na, “a kind of gold coin from a particular kingdom”).

Noun

hoon (plural hoons)

1. (India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.

References

Anagrams

• NoHo, Noho, no-ho, oh no

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hone, hoon, from Old Dutch *h?na, *h?ni, from Proto-Germanic *hauniz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?n
• IPA^(key): /?o?n/

Noun

hoon f (uncountable)

1. mockery, sneering
2. scorn, derision

Derived terms

• honen
• hoongelach

Finnish

Noun

hoon

1. Genitive singular form of hoo.

Kaluli

Noun

hoon

1. water

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
• Andy and Sylvia Grosh, Grammar essentials for the Kaluli language (2004/2009) (as ho:n)

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German han, from Old High German hano.

Pronunciation

Noun

hoon m

1. rooster

Antonyms

• hün

English

Etymology

Blend of fork +? spoon

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fu?n/
• (US) enPR: fo?on, IPA^(key): /fun/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

foon (plural foons)

1. A spork.

Synonyms

• spork

See also

• runcible spoon
• splade, Splayd™

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English phone. Equivalent to a clipping of telefoon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???n/

Noun

foon (plural foons)

1. (chiefly in the singular) A telephone, a phone.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian fon; compare Dutch van, German von.

Preposition

foon

1. from
2. of

Oromo

Noun

foon

1. meat