rooned

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Australian usage; Colloquial

"There is a sense that 'we'll all be rooned' no matter what action is taken. That the War on Terror is exacerbating the problem rather than alleviating it."
"On the one hand, 'we'll all be rooned', it is such a catastrophe; and on the other, let's get to it, there's still so much to be done."
"We will all be rooned because readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic are not being taught proper no more."

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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What does rooned mean?

Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.

Where does rooned come from?

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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