hoon.
A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
Meaning & usage
A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
A pimp.
A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
An attempt or go at something.
Where this word comes from
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.
To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
Where this word comes from
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.
To make a hooting or howling sound.
Where this word comes from
Unknown; perhaps imitative.
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Hokkien 分 (hun). Doublet of fen and fan.
A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Hindi हून (hūn, “pagoda, a gold coin of Southern India”), from Sanskrit हून (hūna, “a kind of gold coin from a particular kingdom”).
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