different between hoon vs toon

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of cartoon.

Noun

toon (plural toons)

1. (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
2. (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
3. (informal, by extension) Only used in loony toon or looney toon, alternative forms of loony tune, which see.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (t?n), from Sanskrit ???? (tu?i, “Cedrela toona”).

Noun

toon (countable and uncountable, plural toons)

1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
2. The wood of this tree.

Synonyms

• (tree): Australian red cedar
• (wood): toonwood

Translations

Etymology 3

Dialectal variant of town.

Pronunciation

• (Geordie) IPA^(key): [tu?n]

Noun

toon (plural toons)

1. (Tyneside) A town.

Translations

See also

• Toon

Etymology 4

Noun

toon (plural toons)

1. Eye dialect spelling of tune

References

• List of English words of Sanskrit origin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• noot, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, oont, tono-

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch toon, dialectal form of teen, from Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *t?a, from Proto-Germanic *taihw?. The vocalism -oo- is also present in some Dutch dialects in Utrecht and Holland, but seems unclear. The -n was originally a plural ending that was reanalysed as a singular form.

Noun

toon (plural tone, diminutive toontjie)

1. toe (part of the foot)

Derived terms

• langtoon

Etymology 2

From Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

Noun

toon (plural tone)

1. tone, pitch

Etymology 3

From Dutch tonen, from Middle Dutch tônen, from Old Dutch *t?nen.

Verb

toon (present toon, present participle tonende, past participle getoon)

1. (transitive) to show, to demonstrate

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?n/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [to?n]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [to??n]
• Hyphenation: toon
• Rhymes: -o?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

Noun

toon m (plural tonen, diminutive toontje n)

1. tone

Derived terms

• grondtoon
• kiestoon
• tonaal
• toonhoogte
• toonladder
• sloottoon

Descendants

• Afrikaans: toon
• ? Indonesian: ton, tona (from plural)

Etymology 2

Noun

toon m (plural tonen, diminutive toontje n)

1. (dialectal) Dated form of teen (“toe”).
2. (archaic) The front portion of a hoof.

Usage notes

Still used in some dialects in Utrecht and Holland in the meaning “toe”. This variant seems to have been quite common in Hollandic dialects until the 19th century. Similar forms have also been found to exist in certain West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon dialects.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

toon

1. first-person singular present indicative of tonen
2. imperative of tonen

Anagrams

• noot

Sambali

Noun

toón

1. (anatomy) nape

Somali

Noun

toon m

1. garlic

Yucatec Maya

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tò?n]

Noun

toon (plural toono?ob)

1. penis

   Synonym: keep

References

• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ?ISBN, page 77