MEANING
- adjective
sad or miserable in appearance don’t look so woebegone, Joanna
ORIGIN
Middle English (in the sense ‘afflicted with grief’): from woe + begone ‘surrounded’ (past participle of obsolete bego ‘go around, beset’)
This is a weird one, never heard of it before. I can’t help it but think of it as hoe-be-gone 😂
