different between coconut vs ducana

English

Alternative forms

• cocoanut (dated)

Etymology

From coco +? nut.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?.k?.n?t/, [?k?o??.k?.n?t]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.k?.n?t/, [?k????.k?.n?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)

1. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
2. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
3. (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
4. The coconut palm.
5. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
6. (South Africa, Australia, derogatory) A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
   • 8 June 2016, "Containment", Cleverman episode 2 (Waruu West speaking to half-brother Koen West)

     Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.

7. (New Zealand, derogatory) A Pacific islander.
8. (slang) A female breast.
9. (slang) The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).
   • 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #2, page 19

     [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]

     Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--

     Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.

Coordinate terms

• (acting white): banana, Oreo, Twinkie

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (kokonattsu)

Translations

Further reading

• coconut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

ducana (uncountable)

1. An Antiguan dish made using sweet potatoes, white flour, sugar, vanilla essence, grated coconut and sometime raisins, blended and wrapped in large grape leaves or aluminum foil and boiled, often served with salted fish in tomato sauce.