different between hoon vs shoon

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

Equivalent to shoe +? -en.

Noun

shoon

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of shoe
   • 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey in Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114:

     If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
     Sitt thee downe and putt them on
     But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean
     The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane

   • 1901, Anna Hempstead Branch, The heart of the road:

     Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]

   • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world:

     It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.

Anagrams

• Hoons, hoons