gone pecan
n.— «Mealworm walks up to the pond carefully, knowing if he falls in he’s a gone pecan.» —by Patty Friedmann Secondhand Smoke Sept., 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Why is it harder to talk if we don’t move our hands? Even when we’re talking on the phone we feel the need to gesture to aid communication. A new book offers a look at the relatively new field of gesture studies. And: Ever wonder why we describe the...
How do you pronounce pecan? Is it pee-KAHN or PEE-kan? And why are there different pronunciations of the name of this nut? The word pecan was borrowed into English more than once, and from numerous Native American languages that had variations on...