'Hood' and 'hoodie'

June 14, 2005, 16:36

wordnerd

'Hood' and 'hoodie'

From The Scotsman:

hoodie:

teenage thug

By a curious etymological coincidence, American gangsters have long been referred to as "

hoods

"

huddellump,

June 15, 2005, 18:30

Caterwauller

The hoods in my 'hood all seem to wear hoodies when it's not blisteringly hot (like it's been lately). This time of year they just wear long white or pink (the new red) t-shirts, sometimes with red peeking out from the edges.

June 15, 2005, 20:12

Kalleh

I always thought that "hoods" (the gangsters) got the name because they covered their faces with their hoods so they couldn't been seen.

June 23, 2005, 19:31

Caterwauller

The online Etymology Dict says:

quote:
hoodlum Look up hoodlum at Dictionary.com
1871, Amer.Eng. (first in ref. to San Francisco) "young street rowdy, loafer," later (1877) "young criminal, gangster," of unknown origin, though newspapers have printed myriad stories concocted to account for it. A guess perhaps better than average is that it is from Ger. dial. (Bavarian) Huddellump "ragamuffin."

But I always thought it was from "neighborhood"

June 23, 2005, 20:42

<Asa Lovejoy>

Here in Oregon there's a brand of peanuts called "Hoody." Rowdy peanuts? Maybe they sell to Wankers Corners.