hoodlum

Oznaczający (Angielski)

  1. A gangster; a hired thug.
  2. A rough or violent youth.

Koncepcje

chuligan

chuliganka

rzezimieszek

zbir

łobuz

kaptur

oprych

żul

żulia

Częstotliwość

23k
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/ˈhuːdləm/
Etymologia (Angielski)

First attested in a December 1866 Daily Alta California article, which mentions "the 'Hoodlum Gang' of juvenile thieves". Several possible origins have been proposed. It may derive from a Germanic word like Swabian hudelum (“disorderly”) or Bavarian Haderlump (“ragamuffin”). Herbert Asbury's book The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (1933, A. A. Knopf, New York) says the word originated in San Francisco from a particular street gang's call to unemployed Irishmen to "huddle 'em" (to beat up Chinese migrants), after which San Francisco newspapers took to calling street gangs "hoodlums".

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