| 释义 |
hoodlum slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈhuːdləm|
[The name originated in San Francisco about 1870–72, and began to excite attention elsewhere in the U.S. about 1877, by which time its origin was lost, and many fictitious stories, concocted to account for it, were current in the newspapers. See a selection of these in Manchester (N. H.) N. & Q. Sept. 1883.]
A youthful street rowdy; ‘a loafing youth of mischievous proclivities’; a dangerous rough. Also in more general use.
1871Cincinnati Commercial 6 Sept. (Suppl.) 2/5 Surely he is far enough away here in this hideous wild of swamp, to escape the bullying of the San Francisco ‘hoodlums’. 1872Sacramento Weekly Union 24 Feb. 2 (Farmer) All the boys to be trained as scriveners..clerks, pettifoggers, polite loafers, street-hounds, hoodlums, and bummers. 1877Boston Jrnl. Aug. (Cent.), You at the East have but little idea of the hoodlums of this city [San Francisco]. They compose a class of criminals of both sexes..travel in gangs; and are ready at any moment for the perpetration of any crime. 1882Chicago Advance 6 Apr. 221 Let our Legislature pass a law to take away the hoodlum's pistol..and he will become harmless. 1886Pall Mall G. 8 Feb. 8 A miscellaneous assortment of hoodlums and corner men, anxious to profit by the excitement generated in Trafalgar-square. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. v. xc. 236 note, The term ‘hoodlums’ denotes those who are called in Australia ‘larrikins’, loafing youths of mischievous proclivities. 1929F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) iv. 64 Then we were a mob of unorganized, distrustful, sick, and unshaved hoodlums, whose one burning desire was to escape from the army and go back home. 1935A. Squire Sing Sing Doctor iv. 43 The hoodlums of the neighbourhood..flattered him, and he ran along with the gang. 1952R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia 4 He's not one of that gang of hoodlums. 1959[see Belsen]. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 208 The man is a vicious hoodlum.
2. hoodlum wagon U.S. (see quot. 1920).
1908Sat. Even. Post 31 Oct. 39/2 The jolting of the hoodlum-wagon now focused the herd's attention. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iii. 79 The hoodlum wagon going back next morning to see what could be salvaged. 1920J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 299 A second wagon for carrying the extra beds and bringing wood and water into camps... This equipage is called the hoodlum wagon. 1968R. F. Adams Western Words (ed. 2) 152/1 Hoodlum wagon, a cowboy's name for the bed wagon.
Hence ˈhoodluming vbl. n., ˈhoodlumish a., ˈhoodlumism.
1872Newton Kansan 14 Nov. 4/1 The Rev. Dr. Cunningham in a recent sermon traced the history of ‘Hoodlumism’. 1883Jrnl. Educ. XVIII. 297 There is nothing that is sweeter nuts to a half-grown hoodlumish pupil..than to annoy and baffle the teacher. 1885Pall Mall G. 29 Aug. 6/1 Children are brought up in the school of ‘hoodlumism’ and utterly lost. 1892Chicago Advance 31 Mar., It is too near hoodluming to be worthy of notice. 1920[see group-behaviour (group n. 6 b)]. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 271 A new all-time low in political scurviness, hoodlumism. |