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Hooligan

2 stages from Irish to English.

Today it means a violent troublemaker, especially one involved in gang or crowd violence
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Stage 1 of 2
Houlihan
Irish · 1890s
"a surname"
possibly derived from an Irish surname associated with a rowdy fictional or real family in London
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Stage 2 of 2
hooligan
English · 1890s
"a violent troublemaker"
adopted in London slang for a rowdy troublemaker
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