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done1 verb Past tense of do.
1803 Pawpaw Hollow Church Minutes 9 The church met at Br. Ominets and after worship done no business. 1922 TN CW Ques 9 Mother done all kinds house work including cooking spinning, sewing washing & mending. 1939 Hall Coll (Emerts Cove TN) Yeah, I think they done wrong running the boys out of here. 1969 GSMNP-37:2:12-13 So that's what we done and went on down there and stayed all night, and then we went across to Little River next morning. 1981 Whitener Folk-Ways 70 When he got out of school he set up his law office and done real good.
done2 auxiliary verb (followed by a past participle) Already, completely. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1864 Chapman CW Letters (April 11) last year we was dun planted by the fiftenth of the month. 1929 (in 1952 Mathes Tall Tales 112) His paw an’ maw has done give him up. 1939 Hall Coll (Copeland Creek TN) I never did say anything about this at all till after the White Caps was done put out. The Blue Bills cut them out. 1953 Wharton Dr Woman Cumberlands 64 Uncle Pink’s done broke his laig. 1979 Big South Fork OHP-10 Hit’d done already run into a couple of cars up here at Oneida Cross. 2012 Jourdan Medicine Men 114 Boy, you have done took the cake with this’n.