troon

Blend of transgender +‎ goon (“member of Something Awful”) or transgender + loon (“crazy person”).

• IPA^(key): /tɹuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

troon (plural troons)

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person.
   • 2016 September 19, @uchimatador, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

     Good Woke Boys pretending like they didn't obsessively post "troons are mentally ill" for 5 years is my favorite* part of twitter

   • 2020 August 29, @fifyfomum, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2020-08-29:

     When the troons speak about ‘gender neutral spaces’ ALWAYS maintain they are promoting unisex spaces.

   • 2021 October 26, @coolestrogen, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

     how do I wear skirts without coming off like a troon twitter no-fashion-sense transbian

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:troon.

• troon out

troon (third-person singular simple present troons, present participle trooning, simple past and past participle trooned)

1. Synonym of troon out (“to undergo gender transition”)
   • 2020 December 15, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/:

     Everyone was a hon back then and trooning at that age still guarantees that you'll be a hon.

   • 2021 November 25, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/:

     How old were you when you trooned?

   • 2022 December 29, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/:

     >Are you trooning?
     yeah I started trooning five years ago kek

2. (transitive, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) To make someone transition.
   • 2021 October 8, @primalplat, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2021-10-08:

     wait, i thought yu get forcebly trooned if you do the gay in iran? white man propaganda?

   • 2022 March 13, @autistocrates, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-03-13:

     Is it so strange that our time is dominated by mental illness, that our men are trooned and our civilization is torn apart by screeching women? Deny a God, suffer a God's wrath.

   • 2023 March 15, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/:

     I don't support trooning kids because I'd be bitter they get to transition earlier than I did.

• troons (“trousers”)

• IPA^(key): /troːn/

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• Rhymes: -oːn

From Middle Dutch trone, from Old French trone.

troon m (plural tronen, diminutive troontje n)

1. throne (ornate seat)
2. (Christianity, angelology) throne (angel of an order between cherubim and dominions)

• (angel): cherub, macht, seraf, serafijn

• keizerstroon
• koningstroon
• tronen
• troonengel
• troonopvolger
• troonopvolging
• troonrede
• troonsbestijging

• Negerhollands: troon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

troon

1. inflection of tronen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• “troon” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• toorn

Borrowed from German Thron.

troon (genitive trooni, partitive trooni)

1. throne

• M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “troon”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
• troon in Sõnaveeb