English Explanatory Dictionary

rooned

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.

Word forms

rooned

Etymology

From "we'll all be rooned" (i.e. ruined), the refrain of a pessimistic character in John O'Brien's 1921 poem Said Hanrahan.

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