单词 | goner |
释义 | gonern. 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. 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 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). < n.1836 |
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