hoodlum

英 ['huːdləm] 美['hudləm]

近义词 rowdy ruffian tough

A young hoodlum, say, heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop.: 话说一个顽童抡起砖头, 砸破了面包店的橱窗.

If discussed the love is discussed the love the speech, that is notplays the hoodlum?: 如果谈恋爱就是谈恋爱的话, 那不是耍流氓吗 ?

After breaking the law repeatedly, the hoodlum was finally caught and brought to account.: 多次犯法后, 歹徒最终被捕受审.

hoodlum 暴徒，恶棍

词源不详，特别用于指美国加利福尼亚州19世纪70年代欺负中国移民的街头流氓，一种说法是来自”huddle ‘em”,即huddle them,类似于攻击中国移民的暗号，后来报纸就把这帮人称做hoodlum.

4. He is a well - known hoodlum in this neighborhood , always bullying others.: 他是这边有名的混子, 经常欺负人.

hoodlum (n.): popularized 1871, American English, (identified throughout the 1870s as "a California word") "young street rowdy, loafer," especially one involved in violence against Chinese immigrants, "young criminal, gangster;" it appears to have been in use locally from a slightly earlier date and may have begun as a specific name of a gang:
The police have recently been investigating the proceedings of a gang of thieving boys who denominate themselves and are known to the world as the Hoodlum Gang. [San Francisco "Golden Era" newspaper, Feb. 16, 1868, p.4]
Of unknown origin, though newspapers of the day printed myriad fanciful stories concocted to account for it. A guess perhaps better than average is that it is from German dialectal (Bavarian) Huddellump "ragamuffin" [Barnhart].
What the derivation of the word "hoodlum" is we could never satisfactorily ascertain, though several derivations have been proposed; and it would appear that the word has not been very many years in use. But, however obscure the word may be, there is nothing mysterious about the thing; .... [Walter M. Fisher, "The Californians," London, 1876]

复数: hoodlums;