Take this concluding para in a Times story today:
A close friend said: “You get these sorts of issues in any organisation. But it’s bollocks to say Robert promoted people because they were his friends. He’s promoted people who are complete c***s.”Now how much better and easier would it read with the h-word:
A close friend said: “You get these sorts of issues in any organisation. But it’s bollocks to say Robert promoted people because they were his friends. He’s promoted people who are complete hoons.”A word whose time has come.
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Well, its already in my Chambers Dictionary, but I didn't realise that Aussies call pimps 'Hoons'!
Have to Tippex out that bit now I suppose...
I thought it was already synonymous with the word 'yahoo', as in "brawling, drunken Irish yahoo/hoon".
In Australia it seems to be associated with young men full of alcohol driving their cars in showy and dangerous manners.
thus sayeth rupert Murdoch and his Herald.
Indeed, it is already in the OED (at least the online edition), in the Antipodean sense and in another.
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