downgone

adj

downgone

adj

Etymology From down + gone.

1

Appalachia, US, Dialectal Poor-looking; shabby

  • When they got to the place, Waits saw that auctions down valley were very seemingly like any others, and he saw the same crowd of buggies and mules and cars all hitched together around the downgone farm-place till it was a surprise anybody could untwine them one from the other.1928, Maristan Chapman, The Happy Valley, page 182:
Synonyms
run-down, decrepit, shabby
Related terms
on the down-go, downgoing

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