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HOOLIGAN , the generally accepted See also:modern See also:term for a See also:young See also:street See also:ruffian or rowdy. It seems to have been first applied to the young street ruffians of the See also:South-See also:East of See also:London about 1890, but though popular in the See also:district, did not attract See also:general See also:attention till later, when See also:authentic See also:information of its origin was lost, but it appears that the most probable source was a comic See also:song which was popular in the See also:lower-class See also:music-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall in the See also:late 'eighties or See also:early 'nineties, which described the doings of a rowdy See also:family named Hooligan (i.e. Irish Houlihan). A comic See also:character with the same name also appears to have been the central figure in a See also:series of adventures See also:running through an obscure See also:English comic See also:paper of about the same date, and also in a similar New See also:York paper, where his confrere in the adventures is a See also:German named See also: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 See also:counter-See also:part. The Parisian See also:Apache, so self-styled after the See also:North See also:American See also:Indian tribe is a much more dangerous character; See also:mere rowdyism, the characteristic of the English " hooligan," is replaced by See also:murder, See also:robbery and See also:outrage. An equally dangerous class of young street ruffian is the " hoodlum " of the See also:United States of See also:America; this term arose in See also:San Francisco in 1870, and thence spread. Many fanciful origins of the name have been given, for some of which see See also:Manchester (N.H.) Notes and Queries, See also:September 1883 (cited in the New English See also:Dictionary). The " plug-ugly " of See also:Baltimore is another name for the same class. More See also:familiar is the Australian " larrikin," which apparently came into use about 187o in See also:Melbourne. The See also:story that the word represents an Irish policeman's See also:pronunciation of " larking " is a mere invention. It is probably only an See also:adaptation of the Irish " Larry," See also:short for See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence. Others suggest that it is a corruption of the See also:slang Leary Kinchen, i.e. knowing, wide-awake See also:child.
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