go onとは

同意語

• (continue in extent): endure; See also Thesaurus:persist
• (continue an action): advance, carry on, forthgo, proceed, resume
• (proceed): carry on, continue, proceed; See also Thesaurus:proceed
• (talk at great length): blather, prattle, rabbit; See also Thesaurus:chatter
• (make a decision based on):
• (happen): come to pass, take place; See also Thesaurus:happen

参考

• going on
• goings-on
• go on then
• what's going on?

間投詞

go on

1. Expresses surprise, disbelief or incredulity.

   A: He asked Fiona to marry him.

   B: Go on!

   A: It's true, I swear.

2. (Australia, New Zealand) Expressing encouragement, see come on.

   Go on! You can do it!

アナグラム

• gono-, no go, no-go, nogo

語源 1

Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). Goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921).

• The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
• The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
• The "guard" sense was influenced by both senses 1 and 2, though not by the Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.

名詞

goon (複数形 goons)

1. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
   • 2009 February 22, Kevin Baker, “Blood on the Street”, in New York Times^[1]:

     Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.

2. A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess^[2]:

     Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

3. (ice hockey, pejorative)  An enforcer or fighter.
4. (Britain, WWII, PoW スラング) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
5. (インターネット・スラング) A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.

派生語

• goony
• goon baiting
• goon squad

参考

• goonie
• gooney
• gooney bird

語源 2

Diminutive slang for flagon.

名詞

goon (uncountable)

1. (Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
   • 2009, Stephen Cummings, Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music, page 11,

     We drank goons of cheap wine.

2. (Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
   • 2010, Patrick Holland, The Mary Smokes Boys, unnumbered page,

     ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek. […] ’

   • 2010, Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World, page 384,

     With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It′s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it′s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we′ve consumed this trip.

   • 2011, E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like, unnumbered page,

     Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon, mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.

同意語

• box wine
• cask wine

アナグラム

• gono-, no go, no-go, nogo