Where does “goon” come from?
goon (English) comes from Japanese 呉音, from Japanese 呉, from Japanese 暮れる — get dark, for night to fall; for the season to...
goon (English): A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little...
Definitions
- A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little...
Ancestry of “goon”, step by step
goon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 呉音
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 呉音 | The pronunciation of Chinese hanzi characters... |
| 2 | Japanese | 呉 | Chinese, from China; the Wú region of China;... |
| 3 | Japanese | 暮れる | get dark, for night to fall; for the season to... |
via English gooney
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | gooney | Any of several albatrosses, especially the... |
| 2 | English | gony | — |
Words derived from “goon”