coon

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A black person.
 * 2)  A raccoon.
 * 3) * 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.
 * He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
 * 1) * 1963 Sterling North, Rascal, Avon Books (softcover), p 100:
 * How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?
 * 1)  A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
 * 2)  A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
 * 3)  A sly fellow.
 * 4)  A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
 * 1)  A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
 * 2)  A sly fellow.
 * 3)  A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.

Derived terms




Verb

 * 1)  To hunt raccoons.
 * 2)  To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
 * 3)  To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
 * , Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”, Outing, W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216:
 * There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “cooning” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair.
 * 1)  To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
 * 2)  To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
 * 3) * 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, “gettin’ our groove on”, rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation, Wayne State University Press, ISBN 081432925X, page 80:
 * From the classic toasts to the dirty dozens to the early blues50 and now to gangsta rap lyrics—why not consider it all just a bunch of niggers cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?
 * 1)  To steal.
 * 2) * 1940, John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men, Robert Hale Limited, page 58:
 * Cooning water-melons [sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster.
 * From the classic toasts to the dirty dozens to the early blues50 and now to gangsta rap lyrics—why not consider it all just a bunch of niggers cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?
 * 1)  To steal.
 * 2) * 1940, John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men, Robert Hale Limited, page 58:
 * Cooning water-melons [sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster.
 * Cooning water-melons [sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster.