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▪ I. gone, ppl. a.|gɒn, -ɔː-|
[pa. pple. of go v.; for the predicative uses see go v. 48.]
1. Of persons: Lost, ruined, undone. Also, a gone case, a hopeless case; gone sensation (feeling), a feeling of faintness or utter exhaustion. gone coon: U.S. (see coon n. 3). gone goose or gone gosling: a person or thing that is beyond all hope; a ‘gone coon’; a ‘dead duck’ (colloq., orig. U.S.).
1598Bernard Terence in English (1607) 303 Truly I am but a gone man [equidem perij]. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 445 Men think Christ a gone man now and that He shall never get up His head again. 1677I. Mather Preval. Prayer (1864) 253 We were in Appearance a gone and ruined People. a1747D. Brainerd in Bp. Lavington Enthus. (1754) II. 220 One Indian felt that it was a gone Case with him, and thought he must sink down to Hell. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 247 Had a parson been there, I had certainly been a gone man. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxii, Up heart, master, or we are but gone men. 1830Massachusetts Spy 7 July (Th.), You are a gone goose, friend. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxiv, But don't talk so, as if it were a gone case! a1865Smyth Sailor's Word-Bk. (1867) 343 Gone-goose, a ship deserted or given up in despair (in extremis). 1886M. Thompson Banker of Bankerville (1887) xix. 285 If they do git 'im he's a gone goslin'. 1892Longm. Mag. Jan. 260 That terrible ‘gone’ sensation produced only by prolonged abstinence from food. 1931D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) 59 But I catch pneumonia, and it looks as if maybe I am a gone gosling. 1949Sat. Even. Post 19 Mar. 108/3 Two minutes more of her and I'm a gone goose. 1958J. & W. Hawkins Death Watch (1959) 88 If my luck won't hold..I'm a gone goose anyway.
2. a. That has departed or passed away; also past and gone. dead and gone (see dead a.).
1820Keats Isabella xx, To honour thee, and thy gone spirit greet. 1839M. Howitt Marion's Pilgr. vii. xiii. 3 And the gone tenderness of youth Doth to my heart return. 1849Lytton Caxtons (1856) 115 The gone ages. 1897Daily News 30 July 7/1 Past and gone conditions of fighting.
b. In Bowls. (See quot., and cf. go v. 48 b.)
1892Outdoor Games xxxi, A ‘gone bowl’ is one that has stopped a hopeless distance beyond the jack.
3. a. With advs., as gone-down, gone-out (see go v. 80, 87).
1855Dickens Dorrit i. xiv, In the chair before the gone-out fire..was the gentleman whom she sought. 1888W. B. Churchward Blackbirding 213, I shan't get more than the gone-down price.
b. With adj. complement, as gone-soft, gone-wild. (Cf. go v. 44 a.)
1925A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose iii. xv, Not a fit man..but a gone-soft and nerve-wracked man. 1960Times 13 Jan. 13/6 The mammalian predators of the rabbit: fox, badger, stoat, weasel, tame and gone-wild cats.
4. Very inspired or excited; ‘out of this world’; extremely satisfying; excellent; esp. in phr. real gone. slang (orig. U.S. jazz musicians').
1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues 374/1 Gone, out of this world, superlative. Gone with it, really inspired, completely in control of the situation. 1948Jazz Jrnl. Aug. 2 (heading) Real gone gal—the history of Nellie Lutcher. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) i. xi. 60, I have found the gonest little girl in the world. 1958Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 10 Feb. 11 Gone—the best, in the top rung, the coolest. 1959Spectator 1 May 613/2 Snapping his fingers in a very gone fashion to the beat. 1959News Chron. 14 Oct. 8/6 The jazz-loving ‘hep-cat’ who claims that the music ‘sends’ him until he is ‘gone’. 1967L. J. Brown Cat who ate Danish Modern xvi. 141 This is a real gone pad..it's what the clients expect.
5. Used absol. as n. Those who are dead.
1908Daily Chron. 13 May 3/3 Unconscious imitations of Browning and others of the great and the gone. 1914Hardy Satires of Circumstance 52 The speakers, sundry phantoms of the gone.
Hence ˈgoner slang, one who is dead or undone; something which is doomed or ended.
1850‘Dow, Jr.’ in Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 6 Jan. 2/6 Last Monday..the old year was not quite a goner. 1854M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine v. 211 I'd soon give you up as a goner. 1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 365 He exclaimed, ‘She is a goner!’..There, to be sure, she lay perfectly dead. 1891N. Gould Double Event 261 Make a noise, or follow me, and you're a goner. 1930‘E. Bramah’ Little Flutter xiii. 153 If it failed he was—if one may be permitted the word in the excitement of the moment—a ‘goner’. 1933Boys' Mag. XLVII. 124/2 When I found the car burnt out I thought you were a ‘goner’. 1945Auden For Time Being 12 Rome will be a goner.
▪ II. gone
variant of gane v., Obs., to gape; variant of gan pa. tense of gin v., to begin; obs. form of gun. |