" 3. Can also signify extremely affected by marijuana. " They hug, their respective chains clanking. Eliot was presented the nickname Possum by Ezra Pound, who got it from "Uncle Remus," Joel Chandler Harris’s compilation of plantation folktales, which was posted in 1880. Eliot named Pound "Brer Rabbit," in convert-the two adult males wrote to just about every other in black dialect for exciting.