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To INSELPETER & MAX >Where's tsuwm .. should ask highbrow<
If you asked Winnie-the-Poohbah I , he might refer you to a recent WWFTD - "Mezzo-brow" (q.v.)-, although, in my judgement, an upper-mezzo-brow should suffice for your purposes. Perhaps this matter has crested and we should return to the earlier thread-theme, whatever it was.
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Anna Strova/Kournikova (or Catastrophic, but I repeat myself) asked: And what is a "hoon"?Well, finally, a word which appears to be Zild slang and Zild slang only. A hoon, my friends, is someone who does things with no thought for the consequences of his/her actions on those around them. To "hoon around" is to act as if you own wherever you are (and not much care what happens to where you are, either). Then you have "drunken hoons" which are hoons cubed. It's not in the COD or in any dictionary referenced by dictionary.com. Yippeeeeeee!  and the same non-pareil asked: * should that be girls' ? Not unless they were possessing more than I intended in that sentence! [poignant-smirk-e]
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I found two references to "Hoon" via onelookup.com. The first is an Indian (Asia) term for a gold coin. The second is in the "Aussie" slang dictionary at http://"www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9740/slang2.html#H" listed as:
Hoon- Loudmouth, to drive recklessly!
I didn't mean to burst the bubble but thought the references to the sources might help others in future.
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the "Aussie" slang dictionary Uh oh, Rod--if I were you, I'd be digging a hole as fast as I could! This would seem to be the ultimate insult to a New Zealander, from what I've gathered. "His" very own word appropriated by the---er, others.  And, for the record: I drive very fast, but NOT recklessly. I judge speeding safety based on road and traffic conditions, the latter including the presence of visible cops. And I am never a loudmouth--I am a Southern lady, born unshocked.
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the "Aussie" slang dictionary
Not my insult, why I put "Aussie" in quotes. Anyway, it's on the web right? It must be true!
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So am I the only one who crests hills? I often define my house as "being on the crest of the hill"-- You drive up my block (the hill is steep enough, that you down shift to 2nd or 3rd to get the car up) and just as you come to the top, where the hill levels off-- the crest--Why there is my house!
I have heard brow of the hill-- and understood the meaning immediately, but would not use that expression-- any more than i would keeps stuff in the "boot" of the car, or have stuff delivered by a "lorry" -- i don't know if brow is "english" --so much as it is just not common in NY-- (America?)
I wouldn't use crest for a small rise-- NE roads all have crowns-- not crests-- they are definately Humped so that snow melt runs off to the side of the road.
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brow vs. crest of a hill
Helen dear, I''m not sure you do understand "brow" -- in the definition given in earlier posting, it refers to a projection. The brow of a hill is slightly below the crest, which is the top indeed. When you're at the brow of a hill, you are under the projecting part and below the crest.
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Thank you, oh Upper-case One of the North Island. Learning "hoon" was a boon!  (now I just gotta figure out some way to drop it into a conversation...)
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Ro d- who? wrote: I found two references to "Hoon" via onelookup.com. The first is an Indian (Asia) term for a gold coin. The second is in the "Aussie" slang dictionary at http://"www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9740/slang2.html#H" listed as:
Hoon- Loudmouth, to drive recklessly!
I didn't mean to burst the bubble but thought the references to the sources might help others in future.No, not much you didn't. Typical - the Ozzies pinch it (as they do everything which isn't nailed down) and then only half define it and then others perpetuate the myth. Instead of posting, I'm going to go postal, I can tell ... is dropping copies of Webster's on people's heads a crime in the US/UK? Then Jackie, in a fit of faustian self-justification, uttered: And, for the record: I drive very fast, but NOT recklessly.
I judge speeding safety based on road and traffic conditions, the latter including the presence of visible cops.Yeah, yeah, that's what they allus say. Hoons tend to be great at self-justification for their actions ... Ironic
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Hoons tend to be great at self-justification for their actions ...So who did pack the 'chute?
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