gone on

English

Verb

gone on

  1. past participle of go on
  2. (chiefly Ireland) infatuated with.[1]
    • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “A Tempest in the School Teapot”, in Anne of Green Gables‎, →ISBN:
      Tillie Boulter says the master is DEAD GONE on her.
    • 1951, Francis MacManus, The Fire in the Dust:
      “And would you like doing that?”
      “I'm not gone on it.”
      She pulled me around so that she could get the light on my face , and she said : “Do it, do as the priest says. It'll help yourself to grow up." […]

References
  1. “gone”, in Webster's Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 2015 August 27 (last accessed)

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