different between zoon vs hoon

English

Alternative forms

• zoön

Etymology

First adopted by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (see 1864 quotation): from New Latin z?on, from Ancient Greek ???? (zôion, “animal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?z???n/

Noun

zoon (plural zoa or zoons)

1. (biology) An animal which is the sole product of a single egg.
2. (biology) Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

Quotations

• 1864, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, page 205, §?73 (1868 reprint; D. Appleton & Co.)

  [… A] zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon, or by any such group of animals as the numerous Medusæ that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as zooids.

Antonyms

• (an animal which is the sole product of a single egg): zooid

References

Anagrams

• nooz, zono-

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch s?ne, from Old Dutch suno, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo?n/
• Hyphenation: zoon
• Homophone: zo'n
• Rhymes: -o?n

Noun

zoon m (plural zoons or zonen, diminutive zoontje n)

1. son

Derived terms

• kleinzoon
• Mensenzoon
• Zoon des mensen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: seun

See also

• dochter

Anagrams

• ozon

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

zoon

1. accusative singular of zoo

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch s?ne, from Old Dutch suno, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Noun

zoon m (plural zeuns)

1. son

Yola

Adverb

zoon

1. soon

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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