coonn.

Brit.

/kuːn/, U.S.

/kun/

Etymology: A familiar abbreviation of raccoon n.

Chiefly U.S.

1. The raccoon n. ( Procyon lotor), a carnivorous animal of North America.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Procyonidae (raccoons) > [noun] > genus Procyon (raccoon)

raccoon1610

rattoon1648

coon1742

Procyon1827

tree-bear1891

wash-bear1891

washer1891

washing racoon1891

1742 J. Hempstead Diary 21 Jan. (1998) 383 Josh..kiled another Coon to Day.

1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 279 Cash paid for coon, mink, wild-cat..and deer~skins.

1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada v. 98 I had never killed a coon.

2. Applied to persons:

a. A nickname for a member of the old Whig party of the United States, which at one time had the racoon as an emblem.The nickname came up in 1839.

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1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ix A gethrin' public sentiment, 'mongst Demmercrats and Coons.

a1860 Boston Post in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) Democrats..rout the coons, beat them, overwhelm them.

b. A sly, knowing fellow; a ‘fellow’.

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1832 Polit. Examiner (Shelbyville, Kentucky) 8 Dec. 4/1 I was always reckoned a pretty slick koon for a trade.

1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers I. xii. 176 To be robbed of our findings by a parcel of blasted 'coons.

1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 232 In the Western States, where the racoon is plentiful, they use the abbreviation 'coon when speaking of people.

1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xi. 153 Come, are you ready, my old coon?

1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. xviii. 37 A knowin' old coon, bred and born to London, might, but you couldn't.

1860 Punch 39 227 (Farmer) Then baby kicked up such a row As terrified that reverend coon.

1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xiv. 296 Dicky Blake's a 'cute little coon.

1881 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xxxiii Jack they called him—a sort of half-wild little coon, that nobody knowd much about.

c. slang (depreciative and offensive). A black person.

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1862 Songs for the Times 3 Play up, Pomp, you yaller coon.

1887 Weekly Detroit Free Press 23 July The flasks are filled from the same barrel, but labeled variously to please the palate of the ‘coon’ or ‘crackers’.

1892 Congress. Rec. 4 Feb. 856/1 Instead of seating one colored Representative, they seated two,—two coons in place of the elected Representatives of the people.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 3/2 The former represented a lively..jovial coon—possibly ‘coon’ is not the right word, which, however, is accepted here as modern slang for a nigger.

1948 Chicago Defender 23 Oct. 7/2 A lot of us are referred to as ‘nigger’, ‘coon’, ‘darky’, etc., right to our faces.

1969 Oz Apr. 46/3 You might..deplore the way that the publicity was angled—poor old coon, he'll thank us in the end.

d. South African. A Coloured reveller at Cape Town; esp. a member of various groups which parade in carnival fashion through the streets.

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1924 Cape Argus 3 Jan. 8 The quiet streets of Cape Town were enlivened by the marching of troupes of coloured youths, gay in coon costumes.

1924 Cape Argus 3 Jan. 8 Obviously this is the sort of thing the crowd loves, for a storm of applause goes up as the coons approach.

1937 S. Afr. Dancing Times Feb. 8 Capetown's Annual Coon Contests.

1937 S. Afr. Dancing Times Feb. 8 An effective group which participated in the Capetown Coloured Coons Carnival, held at the Peninsular on New Year's Day.

1947 L. G. Green Tavern of Seas i. 14 The coons of Cape Town, the carnival troupes that appear unfailingly with each New Year.

3. Phrases (chiefly U.S. slang). a coon's age: emphatic for ‘a long time’. to hunt the same old coon: to keep doing the same thing. to go the whole coon: ‘to go the whole hog’; to ‘go in for’ a thing thoroughly.

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1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) xx. 145 The way she's mad at cousin Pete won't wear off in a coon's age.

1845 J. J. Hooper Taking Census i. 155 We had not seen the amount of cash mentioned as lost, in a ‘coon's age’.

a1860 Southern Sketches This child haint had much money in a coon's age.

1879 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. (1879) 384 Meanwhile I inly curse the bore Of hunting still the same old coon.

Compounds

C1. Generalattributive.

coon-hunt n.

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1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 235 I will take you to a ‘Coon Hunt’.

1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xii. 96 The 'coon-hunt is a nocturnal sport.

1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs vi. 98 All the boys of Tanglefoot Cove and the mountain slopes had gathered for a coon-hunt.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 44 An actual coon hunt or two if there is any game in the area.

1970 Daily Hampshire Gaz. (Northampton, Mass.) 6 Oct. 4/4 The first coon hunt of the season by the Rod and Gun Club drew a good crowd on Friday night.

coon-hunting n.

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1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xii. 96 Coon-hunting is peculiarly a negro sport.

1862 T. Hughes in J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 329 The usual coon-hunting, whisky-drinking pioneers of the West.

1890 Opelousas (Lousiana) Democrat 8 Feb. 3/4 Coon-hunting still gives great enjoyment to hunters in the mountainous districts of Massachusetts.

coon-story n.

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1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 219 He liked, in a bar-room, to tell a few coon stories.

C2. attributive or adj. (in sense 2c). Offensive. Of, relating to, or supposedly characteristic of an African-American person; spec. coon-shout n. (see quot. 1946¹); so coon-shouter, coon-shouting. coon song n. originally U.S. a song of African-American people; any popular song resembling this.As in sense 2c, these depreciatory uses are tending to fall into disuse, or into restricted use, because of their offensive nature.

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1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 223 You half-niggurs! you 'coon whelps! you snakes!

1877 in H. Asbury Underworld of Chicago (1941) 80 Prospect of a Prize Fight Between Two Noted Coon Sluggers.

1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 8 Jan. 6/2 Tom McIntosh caused quite a ripple..by his coon songs and dancing.

1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 24 July 86/1 Her digressive way of enlivening the tedium of the comedy by an occasional coon song struck me as happy.

1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Self-made Merchant xii. 167 The Doctor..sung coon songs and imitated a saw going through a board very creditably.

1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings vi. 95 From that celebrated centre of molasses and dis-franchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America.

1904 N.Y. Sun 7 Aug. 18 ‘Coon songs’, whether of the old plantation variety or the modern ragtime kind.

1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread vii. 216 A coon song lay open on the piano.

1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 26 ‘It goes big,’ remarked the Coon Shouter, enviously.

1917 E. Wallace Kate, plus Ten (1919) v. 93 The noisy coon band kept up its rhythmetic pandemonium in one corner of the room.

1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xi. 228 The exchange of experience between the classicist and ‘coon-shouter’.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 372/2 Coonshout, corny imitation of oldtime Negro style of singing.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 146 Blackface routines and corny coonshouting and mammy numbers.

1958 C. Wilford in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ii. 31 The immediate forerunners of ragtime as popular music were the coon song, made popular by the Christy Minstrels and many similar travelling black-face shows.

1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene ix. 156 The impression of ‘coon English’, which coloured Americans dislike.

C3.

coon-dog n. a dog good at hunting the racoon.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals

bear dog1616

wolf-dog1652

coney dog1681

foumart-dog?1748

bird dog1755

boar-dog1792

bear hound1807

wolf-hound1823

toller1831

coon-dog1833

pig-dog1845

rat terrier1851

ratter1858

rabbiter1859

squirrel-dog1860

badgerer1876

boar-hound1884

turkey-dog1895

coon hound1920

1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head 230 An old 'coon dog, has a face covered with scars.

1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xiii. 97 Uncle Abe's dog—a stout terrier—was esteemed the ‘smartest 'coon-dog’ in a circle of twenty miles.

1872 E. Eggleston End of World xi. 77 Like the man who warranted his dog to be a good coon-dog, bekase he warn't good for nothin' else.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xi. 173 It..on the Hoosier's ‘Coon-dog principle’, ought to be rich in mines.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 23/1 He got the idea of cashing in on the coons in our neighborhood by making a really fine coon dog out of Old George.

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coon-heel n. a variety of North American oyster.

coon hound n. = coon-dog n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals

bear dog1616

wolf-dog1652

coney dog1681

foumart-dog?1748

bird dog1755

boar-dog1792

bear hound1807

wolf-hound1823

toller1831

coon-dog1833

pig-dog1845

rat terrier1851

ratter1858

rabbiter1859

squirrel-dog1860

badgerer1876

boar-hound1884

turkey-dog1895

coon hound1920

1920 Outing Apr. 59/3 For Sale—a few as good Coon Hounds and mixed hunters as live.

1970 Field & Stream July 110 (advt.) Big game & coonhound pups.

coon-oyster n. a variety of North American oyster.

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1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 460 The small oysters..are not generally eaten except by the racoons, hence the common name for them of coon oysters.

coon-skin n. originally U.S. the skin of the racoon, used as a fur (usually attributive).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of raccoon

raccoon1608

coon-skin1818

1818 A. Royall Lett. from Alabama (1830) 103 He..axed Merchant if he didn't want to trade for some coonskins.

1836 W. G. Simms Mellichampe I. i. 22 He gathered up his rifle, drew the 'coon-skin cap over his eyes.

1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 5 I threw down the coon skin upon the counter, and called for a quart.

1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles II. vi. 91 A coonskin cap..completed this parody on man.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 264 There is a jauntiness in the set of that coon-skin cap.

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider v. 53 His picturesque coon-skin cap gives him the look of a hunter.

1895 Outing (U.S.) 27 72/2 We saw coon-skin hats, coon-skin waist-coats, while on the trees around the shingle camp were nailed scores of coon skins.

1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 132 They had already been wearing wolf and coon skin coats.

1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 1 Jan. 9 A man in a coonskin cap appeared.

1963 R. Snedigar Our Small Native Animals (ed. 2) 34 Such wearers of coonskin caps as Daniel Boone, Crockett, Audubon.

Derivatives

coon v. (intransitive) to creep (along a branch, etc.), clinging close like a racoon; also transitive.

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1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 77 Irwin was obliged to straddle the log, and, as they quaintly call it in the west, ‘coon it across’.

1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 320 That curious sort of locomotion which, in the South and West, is happily styled ‘cooning the log’.

1845 J. J. Hooper Daddy Bigg's Scrape 193 He must a'..cooned it on the top o' the limb.

1886 Cent. Mag. 33 16 (note) In trying to ‘coon’ across Knob Creek on a log, Lincoln fell in.

1926 J. Lord Frontier Dust 190 I would show her how a Yankee could coon a pole.

coonery n. the practice of the Whig ‘coons’ of U.S. (see 2a above).

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a1860 Boston Post in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) Democrats..we must achieve a victory..coonery must fall with all its corruptions and abominations.

coony adj. ? bald like a racoon.

ΚΠ

1887 Sat. Rev. 16 July 71 Hat-wearing man becomes Alopeciac, or ‘coony’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	coon
释义	coonn. Brit. /kuːn/, U.S. /kun/ Etymology: A familiar abbreviation of raccoon n. Chiefly U.S. 1. The raccoon n. ( Procyon lotor), a carnivorous animal of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Procyonidae (raccoons) > [noun] > genus Procyon (raccoon) raccoon1610 rattoon1648 coon1742 Procyon1827 tree-bear1891 wash-bear1891 washer1891 washing racoon1891 1742 J. Hempstead Diary 21 Jan. (1998) 383 Josh..kiled another Coon to Day. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 279 Cash paid for coon, mink, wild-cat..and deer~skins. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada v. 98 I had never killed a coon. 2. Applied to persons: a. A nickname for a member of the old Whig party of the United States, which at one time had the racoon as an emblem.The nickname came up in 1839. ΚΠ 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ix A gethrin' public sentiment, 'mongst Demmercrats and Coons. a1860 Boston Post in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) Democrats..rout the coons, beat them, overwhelm them. b. A sly, knowing fellow; a ‘fellow’. ΚΠ 1832 Polit. Examiner (Shelbyville, Kentucky) 8 Dec. 4/1 I was always reckoned a pretty slick koon for a trade. 1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers I. xii. 176 To be robbed of our findings by a parcel of blasted 'coons. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 232 In the Western States, where the racoon is plentiful, they use the abbreviation 'coon when speaking of people. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xi. 153 Come, are you ready, my old coon? 1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché II. xviii. 37 A knowin' old coon, bred and born to London, might, but you couldn't. 1860 Punch 39 227 (Farmer) Then baby kicked up such a row As terrified that reverend coon. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xiv. 296 Dicky Blake's a 'cute little coon. 1881 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xxxiii Jack they called him—a sort of half-wild little coon, that nobody knowd much about. c. slang (depreciative and offensive). A black person. ΚΠ 1862 Songs for the Times 3 Play up, Pomp, you yaller coon. 1887 Weekly Detroit Free Press 23 July The flasks are filled from the same barrel, but labeled variously to please the palate of the ‘coon’ or ‘crackers’. 1892 Congress. Rec. 4 Feb. 856/1 Instead of seating one colored Representative, they seated two,—two coons in place of the elected Representatives of the people. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 3/2 The former represented a lively..jovial coon—possibly ‘coon’ is not the right word, which, however, is accepted here as modern slang for a nigger. 1948 Chicago Defender 23 Oct. 7/2 A lot of us are referred to as ‘nigger’, ‘coon’, ‘darky’, etc., right to our faces. 1969 Oz Apr. 46/3 You might..deplore the way that the publicity was angled—poor old coon, he'll thank us in the end. d. South African. A Coloured reveller at Cape Town; esp. a member of various groups which parade in carnival fashion through the streets. ΚΠ 1924 Cape Argus 3 Jan. 8 The quiet streets of Cape Town were enlivened by the marching of troupes of coloured youths, gay in coon costumes. 1924 Cape Argus 3 Jan. 8 Obviously this is the sort of thing the crowd loves, for a storm of applause goes up as the coons approach. 1937 S. Afr. Dancing Times Feb. 8 Capetown's Annual Coon Contests. 1937 S. Afr. Dancing Times Feb. 8 An effective group which participated in the Capetown Coloured Coons Carnival, held at the Peninsular on New Year's Day. 1947 L. G. Green Tavern of Seas i. 14 The coons of Cape Town, the carnival troupes that appear unfailingly with each New Year. 3. Phrases (chiefly U.S. slang). a coon's age: emphatic for ‘a long time’. to hunt the same old coon: to keep doing the same thing. to go the whole coon: ‘to go the whole hog’; to ‘go in for’ a thing thoroughly. ΚΠ 1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) xx. 145 The way she's mad at cousin Pete won't wear off in a coon's age. 1845 J. J. Hooper Taking Census i. 155 We had not seen the amount of cash mentioned as lost, in a ‘coon's age’. a1860 Southern Sketches This child haint had much money in a coon's age. 1879 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. (1879) 384 Meanwhile I inly curse the bore Of hunting still the same old coon. Compounds C1. Generalattributive. coon-hunt n. ΚΠ 1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 235 I will take you to a ‘Coon Hunt’. 1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xii. 96 The 'coon-hunt is a nocturnal sport. 1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs vi. 98 All the boys of Tanglefoot Cove and the mountain slopes had gathered for a coon-hunt. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 44 An actual coon hunt or two if there is any game in the area. 1970 Daily Hampshire Gaz. (Northampton, Mass.) 6 Oct. 4/4 The first coon hunt of the season by the Rod and Gun Club drew a good crowd on Friday night. coon-hunting n. ΚΠ 1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xii. 96 Coon-hunting is peculiarly a negro sport. 1862 T. Hughes in J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 329 The usual coon-hunting, whisky-drinking pioneers of the West. 1890 Opelousas (Lousiana) Democrat 8 Feb. 3/4 Coon-hunting still gives great enjoyment to hunters in the mountainous districts of Massachusetts. coon-story n. ΚΠ 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 219 He liked, in a bar-room, to tell a few coon stories. C2. attributive or adj. (in sense 2c). Offensive. Of, relating to, or supposedly characteristic of an African-American person; spec. coon-shout n. (see quot. 1946¹); so coon-shouter, coon-shouting. coon song n. originally U.S. a song of African-American people; any popular song resembling this.As in sense 2c, these depreciatory uses are tending to fall into disuse, or into restricted use, because of their offensive nature. ΚΠ 1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 223 You half-niggurs! you 'coon whelps! you snakes! 1877 in H. Asbury Underworld of Chicago (1941) 80 Prospect of a Prize Fight Between Two Noted Coon Sluggers. 1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 8 Jan. 6/2 Tom McIntosh caused quite a ripple..by his coon songs and dancing. 1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 24 July 86/1 Her digressive way of enlivening the tedium of the comedy by an occasional coon song struck me as happy. 1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Self-made Merchant xii. 167 The Doctor..sung coon songs and imitated a saw going through a board very creditably. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings vi. 95 From that celebrated centre of molasses and dis-franchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America. 1904 N.Y. Sun 7 Aug. 18 ‘Coon songs’, whether of the old plantation variety or the modern ragtime kind. 1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread vii. 216 A coon song lay open on the piano. 1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 26 ‘It goes big,’ remarked the Coon Shouter, enviously. 1917 E. Wallace Kate, plus Ten (1919) v. 93 The noisy coon band kept up its rhythmetic pandemonium in one corner of the room. 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xi. 228 The exchange of experience between the classicist and ‘coon-shouter’. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 372/2 Coonshout, corny imitation of oldtime Negro style of singing. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 146 Blackface routines and corny coonshouting and mammy numbers. 1958 C. Wilford in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ii. 31 The immediate forerunners of ragtime as popular music were the coon song, made popular by the Christy Minstrels and many similar travelling black-face shows. 1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene ix. 156 The impression of ‘coon English’, which coloured Americans dislike. C3. coon-dog n. a dog good at hunting the racoon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals bear dog1616 wolf-dog1652 coney dog1681 foumart-dog?1748 bird dog1755 boar-dog1792 bear hound1807 wolf-hound1823 toller1831 coon-dog1833 pig-dog1845 rat terrier1851 ratter1858 rabbiter1859 squirrel-dog1860 badgerer1876 boar-hound1884 turkey-dog1895 coon hound1920 1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head 230 An old 'coon dog, has a face covered with scars. 1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xiii. 97 Uncle Abe's dog—a stout terrier—was esteemed the ‘smartest 'coon-dog’ in a circle of twenty miles. 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xi. 77 Like the man who warranted his dog to be a good coon-dog, bekase he warn't good for nothin' else. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xi. 173 It..on the Hoosier's ‘Coon-dog principle’, ought to be rich in mines. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 23/1 He got the idea of cashing in on the coons in our neighborhood by making a really fine coon dog out of Old George. Categories » coon-heel n. a variety of North American oyster. coon hound n. = coon-dog n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals bear dog1616 wolf-dog1652 coney dog1681 foumart-dog?1748 bird dog1755 boar-dog1792 bear hound1807 wolf-hound1823 toller1831 coon-dog1833 pig-dog1845 rat terrier1851 ratter1858 rabbiter1859 squirrel-dog1860 badgerer1876 boar-hound1884 turkey-dog1895 coon hound1920 1920 Outing Apr. 59/3 For Sale—a few as good Coon Hounds and mixed hunters as live. 1970 Field & Stream July 110 (advt.) Big game & coonhound pups. coon-oyster n. a variety of North American oyster. ΚΠ 1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 460 The small oysters..are not generally eaten except by the racoons, hence the common name for them of coon oysters. coon-skin n. originally U.S. the skin of the racoon, used as a fur (usually attributive). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of raccoon raccoon1608 coon-skin1818 1818 A. Royall Lett. from Alabama (1830) 103 He..axed Merchant if he didn't want to trade for some coonskins. 1836 W. G. Simms Mellichampe I. i. 22 He gathered up his rifle, drew the 'coon-skin cap over his eyes. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 5 I threw down the coon skin upon the counter, and called for a quart. 1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles II. vi. 91 A coonskin cap..completed this parody on man. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 264 There is a jauntiness in the set of that coon-skin cap. 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider v. 53 His picturesque coon-skin cap gives him the look of a hunter. 1895 Outing (U.S.) 27 72/2 We saw coon-skin hats, coon-skin waist-coats, while on the trees around the shingle camp were nailed scores of coon skins. 1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 132 They had already been wearing wolf and coon skin coats. 1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 1 Jan. 9 A man in a coonskin cap appeared. 1963 R. Snedigar Our Small Native Animals (ed. 2) 34 Such wearers of coonskin caps as Daniel Boone, Crockett, Audubon. Derivatives coon v. (intransitive) to creep (along a branch, etc.), clinging close like a racoon; also transitive. ΚΠ 1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 77 Irwin was obliged to straddle the log, and, as they quaintly call it in the west, ‘coon it across’. 1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 320 That curious sort of locomotion which, in the South and West, is happily styled ‘cooning the log’. 1845 J. J. Hooper Daddy Bigg's Scrape 193 He must a'..cooned it on the top o' the limb. 1886 Cent. Mag. 33 16 (note) In trying to ‘coon’ across Knob Creek on a log, Lincoln fell in. 1926 J. Lord Frontier Dust 190 I would show her how a Yankee could coon a pole. coonery n. the practice of the Whig ‘coons’ of U.S. (see 2a above). ΚΠ a1860 Boston Post in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) Democrats..we must achieve a victory..coonery must fall with all its corruptions and abominations. coony adj. ? bald like a racoon. ΚΠ 1887 Sat. Rev. 16 July 71 Hat-wearing man becomes Alopeciac, or ‘coony’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1742
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