köken: Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin. Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.
a ne'er-do-well, a good-for-nothing, a blackguard, a scoundrel, a rogue · a person with no fixed employment and who makes a living through crime: a thug, a vagabond, a bandit · a person who is beyond the pale and who does what they want: a libertine
köken: Compound of 成(な)らず (narazu, the classical negative form of 成る (naru, “to become”) with overtones of “not turning out correctly” or “unacceptable, not right”) + 者(もの) (-mono, “person”). First cited to a text from 1657.
disorderly person; troublemaker, hooligan; misbehaver · internet troll
çekim: çoğul häiriköt · tamlayan häirikön
köken: häiritä (“to disturb”) + -kkö; also analyzable as a back-formation from häiriköidä. Coined by Finnish marketeer Matti Viherjuuri in 1976 for an Alko promotional campaign (initiated by then administrative director of Alko Nestori Kaasalainen) that encouraged reasonable use of alcohol. The word was then popularized through the campaign, including by an Irwin Goodman song commissioned for it and…