Goon

Definition: Goon

Goon

Noun

1. An awkward stupid person.

2. An aggressive and violent young criminal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "goon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Goon

Call off your goon! I don't like the way he's acting (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

What about the goon towers (The Great Escape; writing credit: James Clavell)

The Goon Show (1968)

Goon Platoon (1965)

Portrait of a Goon (1959)

Yuk po tuen III goon yan ngoh yiu (1998)

Yam yeung lo ji sing goon faat choi (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Archer's Goon (reference)

• Goon for lunch (reference)

• Goon Show Classics 2 (Goon Show Classics, No. 2) (reference)

• Goon Show Classics: He's Fallen in the Water! (Bbc Radio Presents) (reference)

• Grandma Lai Goon Remembers: A Chinese-American Family Story (What Was It Like, Grandma) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Team Goon (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "goon": ex-goon.

Albanian

ndërmjetës batakçi, leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الأبله (blockhead, booby, cake, cloddish, dolt, goof, half wit, idiot, moron, natural), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гангстер (gangster, gunman, henchman, highbinder, hood, hoodlum, mobster, plug ugly, thug), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), наемен убиец (bravo, gorilla, hitman, torpedo), палячо (buffoon, clown, fool, jester, tomfool, zany). (various references)

Czech

rváè (bruiser, rowdy, ruffian, thug, tiger), moula (drip, mug, zombie). (various references)

Farsi 

تروریست بی عرضه ونالایق , ادمشکش , ادم کودن (Hash, Humdrum). (various references)

French

milice patronal, imbécile (goat), idiot. (various references)

German

schlägertyp (bullyboy, heavy), idiot (basket, blockhead, clown, cretin, doofus, drip, idiot, imbecile, ninny, numskull, twit, zombie), dussel (boob, dope, goof, lemon, muddler, mutt, mutts, ninny, silly, sucker, twerp, twit). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), βλαξ (gudgeon, imbecile, lummox, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, tomfool, zany), μισθωτόσ κακούργοσ, ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, dullard, gaga, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded), בריון שכיר. (various references)

Hungarian

ostoba alak (clunk, punk, soft, sot), zsivány (outlaw, outrider, rogue), visszataszító alak, sztrájktörő (black, fink, scab), nehéz strici, buta ember (bimbo, bubble-headed, dimwit, dumbo, dummy, galoot, goosey, jake, klutz, loggerhead, lunkhead, meatball, nit, sap, schmo, shmo, twit, yob, yobbo, zombie), bandita (bandit, brigand, desperado, gangsman, Gunnel, high-binder, hold-up man, ruffian, thug, toughie, toughy), bűnöző (delinquent, evildoer, miscreant, moronic, offender). (various references)

Pig Latin

oongay.(various references)

Portuguese

valentão (bully, ruffian, tough), assassino (assassin, cutthroat, felon, homicide, killer, killing, murderer, murderous, slayer, thug). (various references)

Romanian

terorist (bulldozer, bully, gunman, terrorist, terrorizer), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie). (various references)

Russian 

тупица (blinker, blockhead, boeotian, bonehead, bone-head, cabbage-head, duffer, dullard, dunce, goof, leather-head, lob, lubber-head, nerd, numbskull, numskull, thick, thickhead), неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gangly, gawky, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lout, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unskilful, unwieldy), наемный бандит, болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head), придурок (imbecile, moron). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

siledžijski (rowdy, ruffianly, strong arm), siledžija (assailant, bucko, bully, hooligan, plug ugly, punk, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian), plaćeni štrajkbreher. (various references)

Spanish

guardaespaldas (bodyguard, minder), gorila (gorilla, heavy, hoodlum, tough), matón (bruiser, bully, gorilla, heavy, hoodlum, plug ugly, rough, roughneck, ruffian, thug), esbirro (henchman, killer, minion, myrmidon). (various references)

Swedish

dumbom (bonehead, dunce, fool, gaby, goof, idiot, innocent, jobbernowl, jolterhead, lack-brain, Looby, loon, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, poop, pumpkin-head, sap, silly, simp, simple simon, simpleton, stupid, zany). (various references)

Turkish

grevcilere şiddet gösteren görevli, kundakçı (arsonist, fire raiser, firebug, incendiary, saboteur), kiralık katil (assassin, bravo, hatchet man, hired killer, hit man). (various references)

Ukrainian

тупиця (boeotian, clot, dodo, duffer, dullard, dunce, jerk, lob, thick-head, wampus), горлоріз, незграбна людина (blimp, gawk, laggard, lout, oaf, stiff), бовдур (beef-head, beetle-head, blunt, bufflehead, chump, doodle, dumdum, leather-head, noodle, wooden-head). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "goon": gooney, gooneys, goonie, goonies, goons, goony. (additional references)

Words ending with "goon": dragoon, jargoon, lagoon. (additional references)

Words containing "goon": dragooned, dragooning, dragoons, jargoons, lagoonal, lagoons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Goon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aoon, ganow, gaon, geno, geon, geong, gino, gio, gion, Giono, giron, Glocon, glon, gloon, goan, goc, Godon, godown, Gogoi, goin, goint, goj, Gomov, go'n, gona, goni, gonj, gonk, gonn, gonof, gonor, gonoy, gonoz, gonu, goob, gooc, Goodni, gooe, goog, gooh, gooi, gooj, Gool, goom, goona, goone, goonk, goor, gooy, gooz, goq, gorn, goron, gotong, Gotown, gouh, gouk, goune, gount, gouw, gouz, gowon, gromon, gron, gune, gunn, gwon, gyon, jono, jo-ohn, joon, Nghon, ogan, ogen, ogn, ognon, ogo, ogor, oon, rgon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: goo, nog, noo.

-2 letters: go, no, on.

+1 letter: bongo, cogon, congo, gonof, gonzo, goons, goony, mongo.

+2 letters: bongos, booing, cogons, congos, congou, cooing, drongo, gaboon, gentoo, gnomon, gobony, godown, godson, gonion, gonofs, gonoph, gooney, goonie, gorgon, isogon, lagoon, logion, looing, mongoe, mongol, mongos, mooing, nonego, noodge, oblong, oogeny, oohing, oolong, oozing, orgone, trogon, wooing.

+3 letters: bologna, bongoes, boobing, booking, booming, booting, boozing, cologne, congoes, congous, cooking, cooling, cooping, doggone, dongola, dooming, dragoon, drongos, enology, foghorn, fooling, footing, forgone, fourgon, gaboons, gadroon, galloon, gentoos, glonoin, gnomons, gobonee, godowns, godroon, godsons, gondola, gonophs, goodman, goodmen, goofing, gooneys, goonies, goosing, gorgons, gossoon, gunroom, hoboing, hognose, hooding, hoofing, hooking, hooping, hooting, ionogen, isogone, isogons, isogony, jargoon, lagoons, locoing, logions, longbow, looking, looming, looping, loosing, looting, lorgnon, mongoes, mongols, monolog, mooning, mooring, mooting, neology, nonagon, nonegos, noodged, noodges, nooning, noosing, oblongs, octagon, ongoing, oogonia, oolongs, oregano, organon, orgones, orogeny, outgone, pogonia, pogonip, polygon, poohing, pooling, pooping, prolong, roofing, rooking, rooming, roosing, rooting, shooing, soloing, sooting, tooling, tooting, trogons, wooding, woofing, zooming.