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poon noun [ puːn ]

• a simple or foolish person.
• "what possessed her to shack up with a poon like you?"
Origin: 1940s: origin unknown.

poon verb

• dress in such a way as to attract attention, typically with sexual success in view.
• "it was not often he got himself pooned up like this but he was heading off to Sydney"
Origin: 1940s: of unknown origin.

poon noun

• short for poontang.

poon noun

• a large Indo-Malaysian evergreen tree of the genus Calophyllum.
Origin: from Tamil puṉṉai .


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