coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kun/
ipa: /kuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: coons
Etymology: Clipping of raccoon.
Senses: examples: text: And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
ref: 1979, Roger Waters, “In the Flesh”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: A black person.
examples: text: 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.
text: How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?
ref: 1963 Sterling North, Rascal, Avon Books (softcover), p 100
text: ‘Listen, Mr Du Toit,’ he said at last, in an obvious effort to sound light-hearted. ‘Why go to all this trouble for the sake of a bloody coon?’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 149:
related: word: 'coon
glosses: A raccoon.
synonyms: Oreo
Uncle Tom
glosses: a black race traitor.
glosses: A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
glosses: A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
glosses: A sly fellow.
examples: text: This is especially true when your audience has such high expectations of your playing the coon, and thus providing symbolic assurance that a darker people are contained in their assigned social "place" as "subpersons."
ref: 2012, Mia Mask, Contemporary Black American Cinema : Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, page 123:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: 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: sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Africoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Africoon-Americoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Africoonia
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Africoonian
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Afrocoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Americoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: congresscoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coonery
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coonfuse
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coonish
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coonmunity
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coon song
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coontact
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coontinent
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Coontown
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coon tune
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coonvicted
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: coonviction
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: dune coon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Mexicoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: neocoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: Republicoon
sense: ethnic slur: black person
word: zip coon
sense: racoon
word: coon cat
sense: racoon
word: coon dick
sense: racoon
word: coondog
sense: racoon
word: coon-eyed
sense: racoon
word: coon grape
sense: racoon
word: coonhound
sense: racoon
word: coonology
sense: racoon
word: Coon Rapids
sense: racoon
word: coon's age
sense: racoon
word: coonshit
sense: racoon
word: coonskin
sense: racoon
word: Maine Coon