gone pecan
n.— «“I’m a gone pecan,” the last two words rhyming.» —by Paul Fleischman Breakout Aug., 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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...
A magnificent new book celebrates the richness and diversity of 450 years of written and spoken English in what is now the United States. It’s called The People’s Tongue, and it’s a sumptuous collection of essays, letters, poems...
When I was growing up in New Orleans, I always took “gone pecan” (pronounced “GAWN pa-CAWN”) to mean “stubborn”, “unreasonable” or even “unofficially insane”.