Magnoon (adj) (Aus/NZ)
mag-noon
Mad or eccentric.
Late 19th century from Egyptian Arabic majnūn ‘possessed’, a word encountered by British troops during the Siege of Khartoum and subsequently widely used by Australian troops during the First World War.
Example sentences
“He’s gone a little magnoon with age.”
Word of the Day - Ergatocracy (noun) ur-gat-ok-ra-see Government by the workers.
