done gone

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Ruined; destroyed; rendered useless; entirely gone. A Southern vulgarism.


The horse and cart is done gone, and everything in it.--Chron. of Pineville, p. 107.

Oh! she waked me in the mornin', and it's broad day;

I look'd for my canoe, and it's done gone away.--Porter's Tales of the Southwest, p. 133.

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