Coon Meaning
/kun/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA black person.
nounA raccoon.
Sentence Examples
It will really take you a coon's age to finish your work.
The children spotted a wild coon hiding in the tree.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The hunter spotted a raccoon, often called a ____, near the creek at dusk.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It will really take you a ____'s age to finish your work.
Word Origin & History
Clipping of raccoon.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"2 o'clock we float up to Duvall's landing—high bluff, store house, and a few dwelling houses. Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie."
— 1957, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, volume XVI, Arkansas Historical Association:
"“Advertising” was one problem for frontier women. Another was having to “coon” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully."
— 1982, Edwin Van Syckle, “The River Pioneers”, in Early Days on Grays Harbor, Pacific Search Press, page 186:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The hunter spotted a raccoon, often called a ____, near the creek at dusk.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It will really take you a ____'s age to finish your work.