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单词 goner
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gonern.

Brit. /ˈɡɒnə/, U.S. /ˈɡɔnər/, /ˈɡɑnər/
Forms: 1800s gone'er, 1800s– goner, 1800s– gonner.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gone adj., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < gone adj. + -er suffix1.
colloquial (originally U.S.).
Originally: a person who is certain to die very soon. Later more generally: a person who or thing which is or will inevitably soon be dead, doomed, done for, etc.; a person who or thing which is beyond hope or help, or can no longer be saved. Chiefly in predicative use, with indefinite article or in plural.
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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
1836 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Nov. 266 He complained of a universal pricking over the whole surface of his body..and laying down on the porch, expressed his belief of a speedy death by a cant local phrase, ‘I am a goner.’
1850 Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 6 Jan. 2/6 Last Monday..the old year was not quite a goner.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine v. 211 I'd soon give you up as a goner.
1875 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 468/2 Then says I to myself: ‘There's another one, and Jim Fenton's a gonner;’ but I didn't let on that I was skeered.
1904 Omaha (Nebraska) Bee 7 July 4 If he does not win on the second ballot he is a goner.
1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 8/3 If we fall out of bed to-night, we're goners.
1930 ‘Sapper’ Finger of Fate 13 I was a goner from the first moment I set eyes on her.
1945 W. H. Auden For Time Being 12 Rome will be a goner.
1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) iv. 51 Some patients could use a lot of opium, then walk away from it. Others took one small dose and bam, they were goners.
2011 Daily Tel. 27 July 3/4 As I went down I thought that was it, I was a goner, especially when my head went under.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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