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rooned en · ADJ

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.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, colloquial, not-comparable) Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.
    • 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. 2014, Timothy Neale, Crystal McKinnon, Eve Vincent, History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, page 265:
    • 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. 2007, Aidan Carvill, Everyone's a Breather!: Open Source Code to Humanity, page 3:
    • We will all be rooned because readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic are not being taught proper no more. 2014, Bernie Dowling, 7 Shouts: My Shout Book 1