zip coonn.

Brit.

/ˌzɪp ˈkuːn/, U.S.

/ˌzɪp ˈkun/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, coon n.

Etymology: < a first element of uncertain origin + coon n.The character appears in a minstrel song Zip Coon , first published in 1834 (see quot. 1834).

U.S. offensive.

(The name of) a stock character in minstrel songs and performances portraying a black man represented as a self-important buffoon who is excessively concerned with appearing fashionable, or who overestimates his intelligence or status; (hence a derogatory name for) a black man characterized in this manner.The character of Zip Coon is often portrayed as imitating the behaviour and attitudes of white people, with whom he is unfavourably compared.For a similar derogatory portrayal of black men originating in minstrel songs and performances, see Jim Crow n.¹In quot. 1833¹ as a pseudonym used to sign a letter on the subject of the abolition of slavery in the South.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > black minstrel > performing specific part

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1833 Georgia Tel. (Macon) 31 July Zip Coon.

1833 Boston Morning Post 31 Oct. Jim Crow has a rival at the south, in the person of one Zip Coon.

1834 Zip Coon (sheet music) O ole Zip Coon he is a larned skoler, Sings posum up a gum tree an coony in a holler.

1847 E. C. Stanton Let. 1 May in E. Stanton revealed in Lett. (1922) II. 16 The custom of calling..colored men Sambo and Zip Coon, is founded on the principle that white men are lords of all.

1975 S. A. Hirsch Uncle Tom's Compan. (D.A. diss., State Univ. N.Y. Albany) 27 A swaggering, cigar smoking Zip Coon is punched ‘precisely on the middle brass stud which confined his frilled shirt bosom’ by a white man to whom he has refused to yield the sidewalk.

2015 P. Beatty Sellout xxii. 246 It wasn't so much the racist ridicule as the lack of imagination that I found insulting. Where were the zip coons? The hep cats? The mammies?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	zip coon
释义	zip coonn. Brit. /ˌzɪp ˈkuːn/, U.S. /ˌzɪp ˈkun/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, coon n. Etymology: < a first element of uncertain origin + coon n.The character appears in a minstrel song Zip Coon , first published in 1834 (see quot. 1834). U.S. offensive. (The name of) a stock character in minstrel songs and performances portraying a black man represented as a self-important buffoon who is excessively concerned with appearing fashionable, or who overestimates his intelligence or status; (hence a derogatory name for) a black man characterized in this manner.The character of Zip Coon is often portrayed as imitating the behaviour and attitudes of white people, with whom he is unfavourably compared.For a similar derogatory portrayal of black men originating in minstrel songs and performances, see Jim Crow n.¹In quot. 1833¹ as a pseudonym used to sign a letter on the subject of the abolition of slavery in the South. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > black minstrel > performing specific part zip coon1833 Jim Crow1835 centreman1870 middleman1870 interlocutor1880 tambo1884 1833 Georgia Tel. (Macon) 31 July Zip Coon. 1833 Boston Morning Post 31 Oct. Jim Crow has a rival at the south, in the person of one Zip Coon. 1834 Zip Coon (sheet music) O ole Zip Coon he is a larned skoler, Sings posum up a gum tree an coony in a holler. 1847 E. C. Stanton Let. 1 May in E. Stanton revealed in Lett. (1922) II. 16 The custom of calling..colored men Sambo and Zip Coon, is founded on the principle that white men are lords of all. 1975 S. A. Hirsch Uncle Tom's Compan. (D.A. diss., State Univ. N.Y. Albany) 27 A swaggering, cigar smoking Zip Coon is punched ‘precisely on the middle brass stud which confined his frilled shirt bosom’ by a white man to whom he has refused to yield the sidewalk. 2015 P. Beatty Sellout xxii. 246 It wasn't so much the racist ridicule as the lack of imagination that I found insulting. Where were the zip coons? The hep cats? The mammies? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833
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