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单词 magnoon
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Definition of magnoon in English:

magnoon

adjectivemaɡˈnuːn
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.

 
 
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