coon

coon
n
a black person. Originally (and still) a term of racist abuse common in the southern states of the USA, from 'rac-coon' (a black-faced rural pest). The word has been adopted in Britain and Australia to refer to a person of any sup-posedly inferior race. In Britain it is a widespread racist epithet in use by the police and other working-class whites; egg and spoon is the rhyming-slang ver-sion.
► 'There were a couple of coons shouting at each other and it's difficult in these cir-cumstances, I suppose.' (Police officer, quoted in Inside the Brit-ish Police by Simon Holdaway, 1983)

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  • coon|y — «KOO nee», adjective, coon|i|er, coon|i|est. Slang. wary and clever; shrewd. ╂[< coon + y1] …   Useful english dictionary

  • coon — (n.) short for RACCOON (Cf. raccoon), 1742, American English. It was the nickname of Whig Party members in U.S. c.1848 60, as the raccoon was the party s symbol, and it also had associations with frontiersmen (who stereotypically wore raccoon… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Coon — (k[=oo]n), n. (Zo[ o]l.) A raccoon. See {Raccoon}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • coon — [ kun ] noun count 1. ) INFORMAL a RACCOON 2. ) OFFENSIVE an offensive word for a black person in a coon s age INFORMAL in a very long time …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Coon — COON, ónis, Græc. Κόων, ωνος, (⇒ Tab. XXXI.) Antenors ältester Sohn, ein gar tapferer Soldat, verwundete den Agamemnon selbst durch die Hand, als er dessen Bruder, Iphidamas, erleget hatte. Indem er aber diesen noch darzu bey dem einen Beine… …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • COON — primogenitus filiorum Antenoris, qui cum Iphidamantis fratris mortem, ab Agamemnone illatam, vindicare vellet, mediam eius manum subter cubitum lauceâ trausfixit, atque ita ab eo interfectus est. Homer. Iliad …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • coon — [ku:n] n informal [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: raccoon] 1.) AmE a ↑raccoon 2.) taboo a very offensive word for a black person. Do not use this word …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • coon — ☆ coon [ko͞on ] n. 1. short for RACCOON 2. Slang a black person: a term of contempt or derision …   English World dictionary

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