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单词 gone coon
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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