coon

CEFRB2

/kun/

noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A raccoon.
A black person.
A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.

In context

How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?
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.
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.

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And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
1979, Roger Waters, “In the Flesh”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd
‘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?’
1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 149
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."
2012, Mia Mask, Contemporary Black American Cinema : Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, page 123
Rather than cooning or tomming it up to please whites...the black comic characters joked or laughed or acted the fool with one another. Or sometimes they used humor combatively to outwit the white characters.
1994, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks, An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 234
If any other forties figure paralleled this humorous, graceful man in appeal it was the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who, like the Trotter, funneled his extraordinary physical gifts into mass entertainment for whites yet remarkably, considering the time, avoided cooning.
1999, Nelson George, Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 52

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