hooliganism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos

Proto-Celtic *awyos

Primitive Irish ᚐᚃᚔ (avi)

Old Irish aue

Irish uader.

Irish óder.

Irish Ó

Irish uallachder.

Irish Uallachán

Irish Ó hUallacháinder.

English Houlihander.

English hooligan

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

English -ism

English hooliganism

From hooligan + -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhu.lɪ.ɡən.ɪz.əm/

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Noun

hooliganism (usually uncountable, plural hooliganisms)

1. unruly, aggressive behavior; behavior associated with hooligans
   • 1951 October, “Notes and News: Bromsgrove Tombstone Damaged”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

     Only one [tomb] stone was damaged (the Scaife one), and this took place on Friday, March 2, 1951, as a result of hooliganism on the part of two boys.

2. an offence analogous to disorderly conduct or breach of the peace in several post-Soviet jurisdictions and historically in the People's Republic of China
   • 2006, Brian Lapierre, “Making Hooliganism on a Mass Scale: The campaign against petty hooliganism in the Soviet Union, 1956-1964”, in Cahiers du Monde russe‎^[1], volume 47, numbers 1-2, page 349:

     In 1956, convictions for hooliganism exploded and a wave of deviant activity swept through the country that was noted as new and unheralded.

   • 2019, Noelle Wurst, “Power, Punk, and Performance: A Critical Analysis of Hooligan Laws in Russia”, in Rollins College Honors Program Theses‎^[2], volume 94, page 5:

     ‘Hooliganism,’ in this sense of the term, is not to be confused with hooliganism in the context of sports games. While the former describes a criminal act, the latter is a generalized mode of unruly public conduct undertaken by fans to demonstrate devotion to their team through intimidation directed at the other team.

   • 2020 May 24, “Ukrainian Police Detain Far-Right Activists For Hooliganism Against Pro-Russia Party HQ”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty‎^[3]:

     Police said on May 23 that members of the far-right National Corps were arrested for hooliganism after they clashed with security guards and threw smoke bombs, fireworks, and paint cans at the headquarters of the Opposition Platform - For Life.

   • 2021 August 25, Guo Rui, “‘Picking quarrels and provoking trouble’: how China’s catch-all crime muzzles dissent”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4]:

     “Picking quarrels and provoking trouble” first appeared in Chinese law under the vague crime of hooliganism […] Defendants could be sentenced to seven years in prison, or even death.

Derived terms

• football hooliganism

Translations

behavior

• Armenian: խուլիգանություն (hy) (xuliganutʻyun)
• Belarusian: хуліганства n (xulihanstva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流氓 (zh) (liúmáng) (行為 / 行为 (zh) (xíngwéi))

• Crimean Tatar: huliganlıq
• French: hooliganisme (fr) m
• German: Rowdytum (de) n, Hooliganismus (de) m
• Greek: χουλιγκανισμός (el) m (chouligkanismós)
• Hindi: गुंडागर्दी f (guṇḍāgardī)
• Irish: amhasóireacht f
• Japanese: 悪たれ (あくたれ, akutare)
• Kazakh: бұзақылық (buzaqılıq)
• Polish: chuliganizm m, chuligaństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: holiganismo m
• Romanian: huliganism (ro) n
• Russian: хулига́нство (ru) n (xuligánstvo)
• Spanish: gamberrismo m, vandalismo (es) m
• Swedish: huliganism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: хуліганство n (xulihanstvo)