coon's age

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very long time. US,colloquial,idiomatic,uncountable,usually
    — Jarn hasn't seen Schnie in a coon's age.

词形变化

coon's ages plural

词源

An Americanism recorded in 1843 and probably related to the old English expression in a crow's age meaning the same. Coon is a colloquialism for the North American raccoon.
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