A random and useless H2G2 question...

[wingnut the improbable]

Something that only you guys and myself could possibly care about (and even that is debateable...)

The question is this: is the word "hoopy" an adjective or a noun? One would think it's an adjective (and in the instances where it is used, it appears to be one), but its definition (hoopy= really together guy) suggests otherwise.

So... adjective? Noun? Both? 42? You think too much about these things, Wingnut? Tell me what you think!  

[Super Radical]

Well, Its probably both really. The "Y" at the end makes it an adjective and the definition makes it a noun. Hoopy Frood, well maybe hoopy is more like the state of being a really together guy and frood is a really together guy.  

[Tinnumir]

I'd say both, but I think it's by far used more as an adjective, as in the phrase "hoopy food". It just seems odd to me to say "He's a hoopy." It'd make more sense to say "He is hoopy."  

[Lupe_Oceana]

Hmmm.... this is odd. I never thought of this before.
I would agree that it's both, but it makes a much better adjective then a noun, and it's always used as an adjective. Maybe we should change the definition to just "amazingly together."
Or something.  

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

Actually, "hoopy" is an adjective. It's "frood/y" that can be either. As in "hoopy frood", or, from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (I think it's Zaphod drunkening on...) "cool and froody". As far as I know, hoopy has never been used as a noun, and probably shouldn't be.

{she knows too much. she must be eliminated.}

And I, too, enjoy the sig of the uncertain icthus *shiftyshifty*  

[Lullabee]

Yeah, I think it's just defined like that because people who work for the Guide are the sort of writers who may write well but don't know from definitions or nouns or anything. Too drunk for it. And too hoopy.  

[unseengenius]

Ooh, my head's spinning eek
Um... I think it's an adjective  

[Darth_Gently]

wingnut the improbable

Something that only you guys and myself could possibly care about (and even that is debateable...)

The question is this: is the word "hoopy" an adjective or a noun? One would think it's an adjective (and in the instances where it is used, it appears to be one), but its definition (hoopy= really together guy) suggests otherwise.

So... adjective? Noun? Both? 42? You think too much about these things, Wingnut? Tell me what you think!

Noun. However, since Zaphod's Ego is bigger than everything else in the universe put together, he deserves to be called a Hoopy Frood. The Ego demands it. You will feed the ego.  

[Whip It Out!]

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[Darth_Gently]

Frood: Really amazing together guy.

Hoopy: Amazingly Together Guy.  

[Hellz]

I'm gonna have to go with 42.  

[Darth_Gently]

-1 WTF? ^^ How does that relate to Hoopy and Frood?  

[Lupe_Oceana]

Here's another thing that has nothing to do with anything...

Hooping (verb): The act of hula-hooping with a handmade hula hoop at a String Cheese Incident concert.

Which lends itself to such great phrases as, "Hey, look at that hoopy frood hooping!" Or, if we decide it's a noun, "Hey, look at that hoopy hooping!"

Aargh, far too many double 'o's in this post.  

[[.Adolescence.]]

I would consider it an adjective, and frood the noun to the same concept. But that's meh.^^  

[Yuuki Gunn]

The gag it orignates from defines it as a noun.
But it's later use by the fan base and characters with in the Trilogy have made into an adjetive (on numerous occasions people relate to something as "hoopy").
As a side note, in Latin the phrase would be Hoopus Froodus.