different between booner vs mooner

English

Etymology 1

Suggestions are:

• From boondocks.
• From the name of the town of Boonah or the Shire of Boonah.

Pronunciation

Noun

booner (plural booners)

1. (Australia, chiefly Canberra, slang) A person who takes particular pride in their car and enjoys showing it off.
2. (Australia, slang, derogatory) A bogan.

Synonyms

• (car-proud person): hoon, petrolhead

Etymology 2

From the Boone and Crockett Club.

Noun

booner (plural booners)

1. (US) A trophy size big game animal, as measured by the Boone and Crockett ranking criteria.

Anagrams

• Borneo, Oberon

English

Etymology

moon +? -er

Noun

mooner (plural mooners)

1. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words (volume 6, page 387)

     A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.

2. Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).
   • 2009 October 13, "Train drags mooner half-naked along tracks", Sydney Morning Herald.
3. A lunatic.

Anagrams

• Monroe, Moreno, morone, no more