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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR |
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HOOLIGAN , the generally accepted modern term for a young street ruffian or rowdy. It seems to have been first applied to the young street ruffians of the South-East of London about 1890, but though popular in the district
hall
late
series of adventures running through an obscure English comic paper of about the same date, and also in a similar New York
paper , where his confrere in the adventures is a German named Schneider (see Notes and Queries, gth series , vol. ii. pp. 227 and 316, 1898, and loth series, vol. vii. p. 115, 1901). In other countries the " hooligan " finds his counter-part. The Parisian Apache, so self-styled after the North American Indian tribe is a much more dangerous character; mere rowdyism, the characteristic of the English " hooligan," is replaced by murder, robbery and outrage. An equally dangerous class of young street ruffian is the " hoodlum " of the United States of America; this term arose in San Francisco in 1870, and thence spread. Many fanciful origins of the name have been given, for some of which see Manchester (N.H.) Notes and Queries, September 1883 (cited in the New English Dictionary). The " plug-ugly " of Baltimore is another name for the same class. More familiar is the Australian " larrikin," which apparently came into use about 187o in Melbourne. The story that the word represents an Irish policeman's pronunciation of " larking " is a mere invention. It is probably only an adaptation of the Irish " Larry," short for Lawrence. Others suggest that it is a corruption of the slang Leary Kinchen, i.e. knowing, wide-awake child.End of Article: HOOLIGAN If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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