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单词 hoodlum
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hoodlumn.

Brit. /ˈhuːdləm/, U.S. /ˈhudləm/, /ˈhʊdləm/
Etymology: The name originated in San Francisco about 1870–2, 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 (New Hampshire) Notes & Queries Sept. 1883.
slang (originally U.S.).
A youthful street rowdy; ‘a loafing youth of mischievous proclivities’; a dangerous rough. Also in more general use.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans
whitecap1607
shrove-prentice1638
Mohock?1711
sweater1712
highbinder1806
hoodlum1871
hooligan1898
hood1930
skolly1934
tear-away1938
gunsel1942
Teddy boy1954
hell's angel1956
angel1965
bikie1967
skinhead1969
bovver boy1970
boot-boy1977
casual1980
1871 Cincinnati 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’.
1872 Sacramento Weekly Union 24 Feb. 2 (Farmer) All the boys to be trained as scriveners..clerks, pettifoggers, polite loafers, street-hounds, hoodlums, and bummers.
1877 Boston Jrnl. Aug. 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.
1882 Chicago Advance 6 Apr. 221 Let our Legislature pass a law to take away the hoodlum's pistol..and he will become harmless.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Feb. 8 A miscellaneous assortment of hoodlums and corner men, anxious to profit by the excitement generated in Trafalgar-square.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. xc. 236 The term ‘hoodlums’ denotes those who are called in Australia ‘larrikins’, loafing youths of mischievous proclivities.
1929 F. 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.
1935 A. Squire Sing Sing Doctor iv. 43 The hoodlums of the neighbourhood..flattered him, and he ran along with the gang.
1952 R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia 4 He's not one of that gang of hoodlums.
1959 News Chron. 12 Dec. 7/1 Allegations about ‘hoodlum warders’ with ‘Belsen-type mentalities’ at Exeter prison.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 208 The man is a vicious hoodlum.

Compounds

hoodlum wagon n. U.S. (see quot. 1920).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for bedding, firewood, etc.
hoodlum wagon1908
1908 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 31 Oct. 39/2 The jolting of the hoodlum-wagon now focused the herd's attention.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iii. 79 The hoodlum wagon going back next morning to see what could be salvaged.
1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 299 A second wagon for carrying the extra beds and bringing wood and water into camps... This equipage is called the hoodlum wagon.
1968 R. F. Adams Western Words (ed. 2) 152/1 Hoodlum wagon, a cowboy's name for the bed wagon.

Derivatives

ˈhoodluming n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans
sweating1785
mohawking1825
Mohockism1855
hoodlumism1872
hoodluming1892
hooliganism1898
Teddy-boyism1959
bovver1969
wilding1989
1892 Chicago Advance 31 Mar. It is too near hoodluming to be worthy of notice.
ˈhoodlumish adj.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of hooligans
hoodlumish1883
hooliganesque1899
hooliganic1902
Teddy-boyish1960
1883 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 18 297 There is nothing that is sweeter nuts to a half-grown hoodlumish pupil..than to annoy and baffle the teacher.
ˈhoodlumism n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans
sweating1785
mohawking1825
Mohockism1855
hoodlumism1872
hoodluming1892
hooliganism1898
Teddy-boyism1959
bovver1969
wilding1989
1872 Newton Kansan 14 Nov. 4/1 The Rev. Dr. Cunningham in a recent sermon traced the history of ‘Hoodlumism’.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Aug. 6/1 Children are brought up in the school of ‘hoodlumism’ and utterly lost.
1920 E. D. Martin Behavior of Crowds iv. 79 We would sit in chapel and hear a wrathful president denounce our group behavior as ‘boorishness and hoodlumism’.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 271 A new all-time low in political scurviness, hoodlumism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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