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Definition: Coon |
CoonNoun1. A an eccentric or undignified rustic; "I'll be a gone coon when the battle starts". 2. (ethnic slur) offensive name for Black person. 3. North American raccoon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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Literature | Coon (A) means a racoon, a small American animal valued for its fur. It is about the size of a fox, and lodges in hollow trees. A gone coon. A person in a terrible fix; one on the verge of ruin. The coon being hunted for its fur is a "gone coon" when it has no escape from its pursuers. It is said that Colonel Crockett was one day out racoon-shooting in North America, when he levelled his gun at a tree where an "old coon" was concealed. Knowing the colonel's prowess, it cried out, in the voice of a man, "Hallo, there! air you Colonel Crockett? for if you air, I'll jist come down, or I know I am a gone 'coon." Martin Scott, lieutenant-general of the United States, is said to have had a prior claim to this saying. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Coon is a town located in Vernon County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 683.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 90.3 km² (34.8 mi²). 90.3 km² (34.8 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 683 people, 262 households, and 197 families residing in the town. The population density is 7.6/km² (19.6/mi²). There are 295 housing units at an average density of 3.3/km² (8.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.56% White, 0.00% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 0.15% from two or more races. 0.15% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 262 households out of which 36.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.8% are married couples living together, 3.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% are non-families. 21.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.61 and the average family size is 3.09. In the town the population is spread out with 26.8% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 27.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 105.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 110.1 males. The median income for a household in the town is $41,364, and the median income for a family is $50,568. Males have a median income of $30,917 versus $22,813 for females. The per capita income for the town is $20,460. 8.1% of the population and 5.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.9% are under the age of 18 and 11.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Coon, Wisconsin."
Synonyms: CoonSynonyms: common raccoon (n), common racoon (n), jigaboo (n), nigger (n), nigra (n), ringtail (n), spade (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hopelessness | Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coon |
| Specialty definitions using "coon": Flummux ♦ Gone 'Coon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Coon" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (confined, narrow, narrow-minded, poky, strait, tight-fitting). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Catching a Coon (1921) Mr. Coon (1917) The Wooing and Wedding of a Coon (1905) A Coon Cake Walk (1897) | |
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 | An aerial viwn of farmland in Coon Valley, Wisconsin. Credit: Erwin C. Cole. |  | Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Hammond Bennett vists a farm in Coon Valley, Wisconsin. Credit: M. F. Schweers. |
 | The coon party crossing Cayuga Bridge Novr. 1844. Or the effects of Cassius M. Clay's political tour to western N. York. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fight between the Kentucky coon & the Tennessee alligator. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Corn detasseller, manned by teen-aged farm workers at Coon Rapids, Ia., in 1948. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ise de happiest little coon in de cotton field. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Coon dawgling." Memphis, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The coon club hunt--"Taking a header". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Zip coon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The big scenic production Coon Hollow by C.E. Callahan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Azimuth the Cat" by Pascal Buckley Commentary: "My Maine Coon Cat on flagstones, 6 years old. ." | "Cat 5" by PamiFoto PamiFoto Commentary: "Beatiful maine coon cat." |
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| "Coon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Coon" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 42.86% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "coon" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Coon | Last name | 7,000 | 1,779 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "coon": a gone coon ♦ coon bear ♦ coon cat ♦ coon Rapids ♦ coon song ♦ coon Valley. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
maine coon cat | 1,706 | blue tick coon hound | 25 |
coon cat | 1,238 | coon hunter | 25 |
maine coon | 644 | coon dog for sale | 21 |
coon main | 130 | coon rapid high school | 21 |
coon hunting | 124 | bone coon hound red | 21 |
coon dog | 119 | maine coon picture | 20 |
maine coon kitten | 103 | maine coon cat breeder | 19 |
coon | 102 | maine coon cat breeders | 19 |
main coon cat | 100 | coon hunting supply | 17 |
coon rapid minnesota | 72 | maine coon kitten for sale | 17 |
coon hound | 70 | coon rapid herald | 17 |
coon rapid | 51 | maine coon cat rescue | 16 |
caroline coon | 41 | carlton coon | 16 |
maine coon cat picture | 37 | coon hound for sale | 14 |
linda coon | 36 | coon valley wisconsin | 14 |
maine coon breeders | 31 | cat coon kitten maine | 13 |
coon maine rescue | 30 | john coon | 13 |
city of coon rapid | 30 | coon rapid soccer | 13 |
coon hunting light | 26 | coon humane rapid society | 12 |
coon rapid iowa | 26 | maine coon cat for sale | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "coon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nakun, gjitar i vogël mishngrënës. (various references) | |
Arabic | زنجي (black, negro, rank), الراكون حيوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хитрец (dodger, file, operator, shuffler, slicker, slyboots, smart aleck, smarty), миеща мечка (raccoon, racoon, ringtail). (various references) | |
Czech | mýval (raccoon, racoon). (various references) | |
Farsi | راگون(raccoon). (various references) | |
French | raton-laveur, nègre. (various references) | |
German | waschbär (raccoon, racoon), nigger (jim crow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mosómedve (raccoon, racoon). (various references) | |
Italian | procione lavatore (raccoon, racoon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coati. (various references) | |
Romanian | negru (black, blackened, Brown, dark, dirtiness, dirty, foul, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, negro, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, tawny, wicked), şarlatan (charlatan, desperado, history, impostor, juggler, mountebank, quack). (various references) | |
Russian | хитрый парень, негр (afro-american, blackamoor, blacky, negro, negro man, sambo), енот (raccoon, racoon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rakun (raccoon, racoon), propalica (no good, scapegrace). (various references) | |
Spanish | negro (black, black man, blacking, colored, coloured, dark, ebony, gloom, gloomy, jim crow, Negro, nig-nog, pitchy, Raven, sable, stout), mapache (raccoon, raccoons, racoon). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvättbjörn (raccoon, racoon). (various references) | |
Thai | แรคคูน (คำย่อของ raccoon), คนดำ (egg, egg and spoon). (various references) | |
Turkish | zenci (african, black, blackamoor, Blackie, Blacky, buck, colored, coloured, crow, jim crow, moke, negro, negroid, sambo, spade, uncle), rakun (raccoon, racoon), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | єнот (raccoon, racoon). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Portugese | 1100-Modern | barracoos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coon": cooncan, cooncans, coonhound, coonhounds, coons, coonskin, coonskins, coontie, coonties. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "coon": barracoon, cocoon, puccoon, raccoon, racoon, tycoon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "coon": barracoons, cocooned, cocooning, cocoonings, cocoons, puccoons, raccoons, racoons, tycoons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coon" (pronounced kuw"n) |
| 3 | k uw" n | cocoon, raccoon, tycoon. |
| 2 | -uw" n | festoon, afternoon, attune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, boon, buffoon, cardoon, cartoon, contrabassoon, croon, dune, galloon, goon, harpoon, hewn, immune, impugn, inopportune, kroon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, maroon, monsoon, moon, noon, opportune, picayune, platoon, pontoon, poon, prune, saloon, soon, spoon, strewn, swoon, Toon, tune, typhoon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: con, coo, noo. | |
-2 letters: no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: codon, cogon, colon, condo, congo, conto, coons, croon. | |
+2 letters: bronco, cocoon, codons, cogons, cojoin, colone, coloni, colons, colony, common, condom, condor, condos, congos, congou, conoid, consol, contos, convoy, cooing, cordon, corona, cotton, coupon, croons, croton, honcho, noncom, nostoc, ochone, ovonic, ozonic, poncho, racoon, tycoon, uncool. | |
+3 letters: bonnock, boronic, broncho, broncos, cardoon, cartoon, chinook, chorion, chronon, coconut, cocoons, cofound, coition, cojoins, cojones, cologne, colonel, colones, colonic, colonus, commons, compone, compony, concoct, concord, condoes, condole, condoms, condone, condors, conform, congoes, congous, conjoin, connote, conoids, console, consols, consort, contort, contour, control, convoke, convoys, cooking, coolant, cooling, cooncan, coontie, cooping, coranto, cordons, corncob, cornrow, cornuto, coronae, coronal, coronas, coronel, coroner, coronet, cottons, cottony, coupons, crooned, crooner, crotons, crouton, dornock, economy, ecotone, hencoop, honchos, locoing, monocle, monocot, monodic, monoecy, moronic, nocuous, noncola, noncoms, nostocs, obconic, octagon, octanol, omicron, opsonic, orcinol, ovonics, pocosin, ponchos, popcorn, porcino, puccoon, raccoon, racoons, rockoon, schnook, secondo, soupcon, torchon, tycoons, volcano. | |
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