ace boon-coon

[Jonathan Lighter]

Rare Classical sighting:

  1998 Marilyn Nelson, in David R. Slavitt & Palmer Bowie, eds. _Euripides 1_ (Phila.: U. of Pennsylvana Press)  74: So Polymestor is Hecuba's homeboy, her brother, her ace-boon- coon.

  JL


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