coconut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/
ipa: [ˈkʰəʊ̯.kə.nʌt]
ipa: [ˈkʰəʊ̯.kə.nɐt]
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.kəˌnʌt/
ipa: [ˈkʰoʊ̯.kəˌnʌt]
ipa: /ˈkəʉ.kə.nɐt/
ipa: [ˈkʰəʉ̯.kə.nɐt]
ipa: /ˈkɐʉ.kə.nɐt/
ipa: [ˈkʰɐʉ.kə.nɐt]
rhymes: -əʊkənʌt
Forms: form: coconuts
form: cocoanut
form: coco-nut
form: cokernut
Etymology: From coco + nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins and the slur that they are "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.
Senses: examples: text: The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.
ref: 1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 291:
glosses: A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
glosses: A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
glosses: The edible white flesh of this fruit.
glosses: The coconut palm.
examples: text: After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?
ref: 1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
examples: text: Their convictions challenged those critics who dismissed John Githongo’s anti-corruption efforts as the naïve projection of inappropriate ‘mzungu’ values onto an African nation where they were doomed to fail. If John was a ‘coconut’, he certainly wasn’t the only coconut in Kenya.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
text: Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.
ref: 2016 June 8, “Containment”, in Cleverman, episode 2, spoken by Waruu West [speaking to half-brother Koen West]:
glosses: A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
synonyms: Oreo
Uncle Tom
glosses: A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
glosses: A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
qualifier: self-deprecatory
glosses: A Pacific islander.
glosses: A female breast.
examples: text: [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]
Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--
Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.
ref: 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, 2, page 19:
text: 'How unfortunate.'
'Yes. It's rather causing him to go off his coconut. He's met a girl, you see. A peach.'
ref: 2021, Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe:
synonyms: nut
glosses: The human head.
Hypernyms: sense: fruit
word: fruit
sense: POC assimilated into white culture
word: race traitor
Coordinate terms: sense: POC assimilated into white culture
word: banana
sense: POC assimilated into white culture
word: egg
sense: POC assimilated into white culture
word: Oreo
sense: POC assimilated into white culture
word: Twinkie
Derived terms: word: boko
word: coconana
word: coconut ant
word: coconut apple
word: coconut bowl
word: coconut butter
word: coconut cadang-cadang viroid
word: coconut cotyledon
taxonomic: Birgus latro
word: coconut crab
word: coconut cream
word: Coconut Creek
word: coconut curd
word: coconut doggy
word: coconut embryo
word: coconut extract
word: coconut flake
alt: Pelargonium grossularioides et al.
word: coconut geranium
word: coconut grater
word: coconut head
word: coconut heart
word: coconut jelly
word: coconut kernel
word: coconut macaroon
word: coconut matting
word: coconut meat
word: coconut milk
word: coconut money
taxonomic: Amphioctopus marginatus
word: coconut octopus
word: coconut oil
taxonomic: Cocos nucifera
word: coconut palm
word: coconut pearl
word: coconut pudding
word: coconut roll
word: coconut sap
word: coconut shell
word: coconut shrimp
word: coconut shy
word: coconut snowball
word: coconut soup
word: coconut spider
word: coconut sprout
word: coconut tinangaja viroid
taxonomic: Cocos nucifera
word: coconut tree
word: coconutty
word: coconut vinegar
word: coconut washboard
word: coconut water
word: coconut wine
word: coconut wireless
word: coconut worm
word: cocovore
word: common tall coconut
word: creamed coconut
word: cream of coconut
word: cream of coconut soup
word: death by coconut
word: desiccated coconut
word: double coconut
word: dried coconut
word: dwarf coconut
word: dwarf green coconut
word: dwarf orange coconut
word: dwarf yellow coconut
word: east coast tall coconut
word: Fiji dwarf coconut
word: flaked coconut
taxonomic: Voanioala gerardii
word: forest coconut
word: golden Malayan dwarf coconut
word: Golden Malay coconut
word: green coconut
word: Green Malay coconut
word: jelly-coconut
word: jelly coconut
word: king coconut
word: macapuno coconut
word: Malayan dwarf coconut
word: Maypan coconut
word: Nawassi coconut
word: red coconut
word: sea coconut
word: shredded coconut
word: sprouted coconut
word: that accounts for the milk in the coconut
word: use one's coconut
word: water coconut
word: west coast tall coconut
word: yellow coconut