hoon |huːn| Austral./NZ informal; noun: a lout or hooligan, especially a young man who drives

recklessly. the whole family was wiped out because some drunken hoon had to drive his car. ORIGIN

1930s: of unknown origin.
His beard tangled around his shanks as he descended

the rain-wet stairs, and from the garden a macaw called

In a red tongue. There were two of me, I was beside myself

As I helped untangle the Great Hoon’s beard.

‘Shall I speak?’ spake the Great Hoon. ‘Oh, I’m all ears,’

I replied. Spittle everywhere. Jewels here and there

Scattered on the gleaming stone, opals rained

On the glowing marble, and I thought I heard

Between the Parrot’s paragraphs of speech, a distant sea

Murmuring on a granulated strand, and thought I saw

Among the glittering foliage, in the mirror of myself,

The Gaudy Hoon made immeasurably strange.