gone coonn.

Brit.

/ˌɡɒn ˈkuːn/, U.S.

/ˈɡɔn ˈkun/,

/ˈɡɑn ˈkun/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gone adj., coon n.¹

Etymology: < gone adj. + coon n.¹ Compare goner n., and also earlier gone n.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Now rare.

A person who or (in later use) thing which is ‘done for’; a hopeless case; = goner n.In quot. 1832 used literally with reference to a raccoon. The story told in the fable from which this quot. is taken may have given rise to the popularity of the expression; cf. however gone adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun]

the holy soulsc950

the deadc1000

dead1340

deadmana1400

the defunct1548

sleeper1590

gone?1614

grave-fellow1642

under-dead1648

the deceased1673

the majority1721

the departed1722

the dear departed1814

sleeper1827

goner1836

gone coon1837

silent majority1874

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun] > person or thing beyond hope

unreclaimable1649

gone duck1830

goner1836

gone coon1837

1832 Amer. Turf Reg. Oct. 82 The coon cried..that he was a gone coon; rolled up the white of his eyes, folded his paws on his breast, and tumbled out of the tree.]

1837 Camden (S. Carolina) Commerc. Courier 24 June Lawyer M'Campbell sent word to Little Rock that if they didn't do something for him, he was a gone 'coon.

1843 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 503 The Marquis..looks an exceeding ‘gone 'coon’.

1845 N.Y. Herald 20 May The English journals give up the Texas question as a ‘gone coon’.

1892 E. D'Esterre-Keeling Orchardscroft xxix. 257 Phillie's a gone coon, jus' dyin' for love of her.

1940 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 16 Apr. 4/2 Nobody in Washington..has a notion that the Danes are otherwise than a ‘gone coon’.

1954 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Oct. 13/5 Any bookie who laid those odds would be a gone coon.

1990 G. Morris Reluctant Bridegroom xxiii. 287 ‘Remember when that Flathead war party got us pinned down in that canyon?’ Sky smiled... ‘Shore, Hoss! We were gone coons that time.’

Derivatives

† gone cooniness n. Obsolete the quality or state of being a ‘gone coon’.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1883 H. R. Haweis in Gentleman's Mag. June 599 For downright fanaticism and ‘gone cooniness’, if I may invent the word, commend me to your violin-maniac.

† gone coonishness n. Obsolete = gone cooniness n.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 53 When the former forgot the ‘gone coonishness’ of his earlier days.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gone coon
释义	gone coonn. Brit. /ˌɡɒn ˈkuːn/, U.S. /ˈɡɔn ˈkun/, /ˈɡɑn ˈkun/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gone adj., coon n.¹ Etymology: < gone adj. + coon n.¹ Compare goner n., and also earlier gone n. colloquial (originally U.S.). Now rare. A person who or (in later use) thing which is ‘done for’; a hopeless case; = goner n.In quot. 1832 used literally with reference to a raccoon. The story told in the fable from which this quot. is taken may have given rise to the popularity of the expression; cf. however gone adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] the holy soulsc950 the deadc1000 dead1340 deadmana1400 the defunct1548 sleeper1590 gone?1614 grave-fellow1642 under-dead1648 the deceased1673 the majority1721 the departed1722 the dear departed1814 sleeper1827 goner1836 gone coon1837 silent majority1874 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun] > person or thing beyond hope unreclaimable1649 gone duck1830 goner1836 gone coon1837 1832 Amer. Turf Reg. Oct. 82 The coon cried..that he was a gone coon; rolled up the white of his eyes, folded his paws on his breast, and tumbled out of the tree.] 1837 Camden (S. Carolina) Commerc. Courier 24 June Lawyer M'Campbell sent word to Little Rock that if they didn't do something for him, he was a gone 'coon. 1843 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 503 The Marquis..looks an exceeding ‘gone 'coon’. 1845 N.Y. Herald 20 May The English journals give up the Texas question as a ‘gone coon’. 1892 E. D'Esterre-Keeling Orchardscroft xxix. 257 Phillie's a gone coon, jus' dyin' for love of her. 1940 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 16 Apr. 4/2 Nobody in Washington..has a notion that the Danes are otherwise than a ‘gone coon’. 1954 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Oct. 13/5 Any bookie who laid those odds would be a gone coon. 1990 G. Morris Reluctant Bridegroom xxiii. 287 ‘Remember when that Flathead war party got us pinned down in that canyon?’ Sky smiled... ‘Shore, Hoss! We were gone coons that time.’ Derivatives † gone cooniness n. Obsolete the quality or state of being a ‘gone coon’.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1883 H. R. Haweis in Gentleman's Mag. June 599 For downright fanaticism and ‘gone cooniness’, if I may invent the word, commend me to your violin-maniac. † gone coonishness n. Obsolete = gone cooniness n.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 53 When the former forgot the ‘gone coonishness’ of his earlier days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837
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