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Definition of magnoon in English: magnoonadjectivemaɡˈnuːn Australian, NZ informal Mad or eccentric. during the night a camel went magnoon and chased round the lines Example sentencesExamples - Oh, Nadia is magnoon, crazy.
- He is magnoon with anger, and will speak with none but you.
- I know he's magnoon these days but he was the best and probably always will be.
- I showed him my revolver and told him if they went magnoon again we should shoot.
- Their language, when a camel went mangoon, was simply shocking.
- Over this interesting discovery they fairly went magnoon.
Origin Late 19th century: from Egyptian Arabic majnūn 'possessed', a word encountered by British troops during the Siege of Khartoum and subsequently widely used by Australian troops during the First World War. |