Week Ending 30 Aug 2013

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From Whence That Word? 

THE WORD HOODLUM

Was originally used to describe a misbehaved child, a loafer, or a rowdy street kid, but more recently, it came to refer to a small-time criminal, thug, or gangster. The shortened form hood is first recorded about 1880, though it wasn't in common use until the late 1920s.

The most plausible theory was suggested in 1935 by Dr. J. T. Krumpelmann. Explaining that the Germans constituted the largest foreign-language group in San Francisco, he derives hoodlum from the German (Bavarian) dialectal term Hudellump, Hodalump, meaning 'ragamuffin, good-for-nothing'.

But according to Charles Earle Funk (and other sources), hoodlum was the accidental coinage of a newspaper reporter. In a story about a gang of ruffians led by a fellow named Muldoon, the reporter spelled the name as Noodlum to avoid reprisals. The newspaper's compositor misinterpreted the name as Hoodlum.

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