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Coon

noun

An eccentric or undignified rustic.

(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person. Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade.

North American raccoon. Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, Procyon lotor, ringtail.

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"Coon" Quotes from Famous Books

... breath fer coolin' your broth, Fer I ollers hev strove (at least thet's my impression) To make cussed free with the rights o' the North,' Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he;— 'Yes,' sez Davis o' Miss., 'The perfection o' bliss Is in skinnin' thet same old coon,' sez he. 40 ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... country-houses of the chase of the marten; you see the hounds all yelping round the foot of a tree, the marten up in it, and in the middle of the hounds the huntsman in top-boots and breeches. You can but smile at it. To Americans it must forcibly recall the treeing of a 'coon. The deer need keep no watch, there are no wolves to pull them down; and it is quite probable that the absence of any danger of that kind is the reason of their tameness even more than the fact that they are not chased by man. ...

— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies

... the great hollow tree Bobby Coon put his head out. "Where are you going in such a ...

— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various

... foot-ball fight for the State championship, he had played one game with Central University and one with old Transylvania, and he had learned the joy of victory in one and in the other the heart-sickening depression of defeat. One never-to-be-forgotten night he had gone coon-hunting with Mavis and Marjorie and Gray—riding slowly through shadowy woods, or recklessly galloping over the blue-grass fields, and again, as many times before, he felt his heart pounding with emotions that seemed almost to make ...

— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.

... neither will I," said the Pessimist. "For the matter of that, it will be first-rate sport, and I wonder I haven't thought of coon-hunting before. I'll come out and keep the boys company, and we'll see if we don't 'sarcumvent the ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

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