LekhoriLekhoriA worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'
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.
This abovementioned Chandoo or prepared opium for smoking is retailed by them [the East India Company] at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, […]
A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
To drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
[…] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed.
A surname from Dutch.
A civil parish (without a council) in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2231).
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...
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To make a hooting or howling sound.
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.