coon
(noun) an eccentric or undignified rustic; “I’ll be a gone coon when the battle starts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
coon (plural coons)
(racial slur) A black person.
(informal, chiefly, Southern US) A raccoon.
(informal, South Africa) A member of a colourfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
(Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
(US, dated) A sly fellow.
(African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
coon (third-person singular simple present coons, present participle cooning, simple past and past participle cooned)
(Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
(climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
(Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
(Georgia (US), colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
(African American Vernacular English, of an, African American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
(Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
• Ocon, cono-, onco-
Coon (plural Coons)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Coon is the 2,116th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 17,097 individuals. Coon is most common among individuals classified as "White" (91.71%) by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Ocon, cono-, onco-
Source: Wiktionary
Coon, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A raccoon. See Raccoon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
