mid 19th cent.: perhaps from dialect gooney 'booby'; influenced by the subhuman cartoon character 'Alice the Goon', created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist
The herdsman has little other occupation than to protect the cattle from harm: the positive agencies concerned in the realization of the product, goon nearly of themselves. 牧人的全部工作几乎就是保护畜群不受伤害，做到了这一点，畜群自己就会发展壮大。
