maroon

[David Bergdahl]

More than likely it's Bugs Bunny's classic "What a maroon!"

On 9/14/07, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 9/14/2007 12:11 PM, Jon L. wrote:
> >One thinks of the app. later American slang term "maroon," for "moron."
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> Is there a racial overtone to this?  Viz OED2 "maroon n.2   1. One of
> a class of Blacks, originally fugitive slaves, living in the
> mountains and forests of Surinam and the West Indies."
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> Joel
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