Synonyms for hooligan
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hoo-li-guh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhu lɪ gən |
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Définition of hooligan
Origin :- 1890s, of unknown origin, first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the variant form of the Irish surname Houlihan, which figured as a characteristic comic Irish name in music hall songs and newspapers of the 1880s and '90s.
- As an "inventor" and adapter to general purposes of the tools used by navvies and hodmen, "Hooligan" is an Irish character who occupies week by week the front of a comic literary journal called Nuggets, one of the series of papers published by Mr. James Henderson at Red Lion House. Previous to publication in London, "Hooligan" appears, I believe, in New York in a comic weekly, and in London he is set off against "Schneider," a German, whose contrainventions and adaptations appear in the Garland (a very similar paper to Nuggets), which also comes from Mr. Henderson's office. "Hooligan" and "Schneider" have been running, I should think, for four or five years. ["Notes and Queries," Oct. 15, 1898]
- Internationalized 20c. in communist rhetoric as Russian khuligan, opprobrium for "scofflaws, political dissenters, etc."
- noun hoodlum
- And not a thing had been stolen—not a hooligan had dared enter.
- Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
- But it was not even a nobleman's rod; any moujik, any hooligan, could wield it.
- Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
- Even the Hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.
- Extract from : « Reginald » by Saki
- He must suffer for smashing up my rooms exactly as if he had been a hooligan in the street.
- Extract from : « Dodo Wonders » by E. F. Benson
- He is a hooligan; that's precisely what he is, and once I was pleased at his coming to my concert.
- Extract from : « Dodo Wonders » by E. F. Benson
- If we'd got to Hooligan's half an hour sooner, we might have rescued the girl.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Daring Rescue » by Stanley R. Matthews
- Then it began to dawn on Matt that the schemers had fallen back on Hooligan.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Daring Rescue » by Stanley R. Matthews
- The family's away for the summer, and Hooligan is able to do about as he pleases there.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Daring Rescue » by Stanley R. Matthews
- "That's a game two can play at, Hooligan," answered Harris coolly.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Daring Rescue » by Stanley R. Matthews
- But there was only one man on the roof, and that was Hooligan.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Daring Rescue » by Stanley R. Matthews
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