different between coon vs doon

English

Etymology

Clipping of raccoon, itself a shortening of arocoun, from Powhatan.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kun/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

coon (plural coons)

1. (ethnic slur) A black person.

2. (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.

     He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.

   • 1963 Sterling North, Rascal, Avon Books (softcover), p 100:

     How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?

   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, page 149:

     ‘Listen, Mr Du Toit,’ he said at last, in an obvious effort to sound light-hearted. ‘Why go to all this trouble for the sake of a bloody coon?’

3. (informal, South Africa) A member of a colourfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
4. (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
5. (US, dated) A sly fellow.
6. (African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.

Derived terms

Verb

coon (third-person singular simple present coons, present participle cooning, simple past and past participle cooned)

1. (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
2. (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
3. (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
   • a. 1917, Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”, Outing, W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216:

     There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “cooning” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair.

   • 1957, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, volume XVI, Arkansas Historical Association:

     2 o'clock we float up to Duvall's landing—high bluff, store house, and a few dwelling houses. Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie.

   • 1982, Edwin Van Syckle, The River Pioneers, Early Days on Grays Harbor, Pacific Search Press, page 186:

     “Advertising” was one problem for frontier women. Another was having to “coon” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully.

4. (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
5. (African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
   • 1999, Nelson George, Elevating the Game, Black Men and Basketball, U of Nebraska Press, ?ISBN, page 52:

     If any other forties figure paralleled this humorous, graceful man in appeal it was the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who, like the Trotter, funneled his extraordinary physical gifts into mass entertainment for whites yet remarkably, considering the time, avoided cooning.

   • 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, “gettin’ our groove on”, rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation, Wayne State University Press, ?ISBN, page 80:

     From the classic toasts to the dirty dozens to the early blues⁵⁰ and now to gangsta rap lyrics—why not consider it all just a bunch of niggers cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?

   • 2006, A. Khaulid, The Great Book of Fire, Damon Hunter, ?ISBN, page 142:

     Then the warrior appeared, in a manner that was dead serious as a heart attack wearing a baseball cap. Then came the sidekick, a jet black madman dancing, and almost cooning out of the shadows that cancelled him.

6. (Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
   • 1940, John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men, Robert Hale Limited, page 58:

     Cooning water-melons [sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster.

   • 1968, Bill Adler (compiler), Jay David (editor), Growing Up Black, Morrow, page 200:

     In the summertime, at night, in addition to all the other things we did, some of us boys would slip out down the road, or across the pastures and go “cooning” watermelons.

   • 2006, Timothy M. Gay, Tris Speaker, The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, U of Nebraska Press, ?ISBN, page 37:

     Tris and his gang loved to prowl around at night, “cooning melons,” as Speaker put it in a 1920 interview. By all accounts, young Master Speaker was a handful.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:coon.

Derived terms

• coon it

References

• 2005, John R. Waldman, 100 Weird Ways to Catch Fish, Stackpole Books, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Ocon, cono-, onco-

English

Etymology 1

See down.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?n/

Adverb

doon (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) Down.

Preposition

doon

1. (Tyneside) Down.

Adjective

doon (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) On a lower level than before; down.

Etymology 2

See dun.

Noun

doon (plural doons)

1. Alternative form of dun, an ancient or medieval fortification.

Anagrams

• Ondo, dono

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-Germanic *d?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-.

Verb

doon

1. to do

Conjugation

Derived terms

• euverdoon, óppernuuj doon
• euverdoonder

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German dôn. Compare Low German doen, West Frisian dwaan, English do, German tun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??n/

Verb

doon (third-person singular simple present deit, past tense dee, past participle daan, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to do
2. to put

   Do dat aver dor!

   Just put it in there!

3. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make; forms causative verbs
4. (auxiliary, preterite) often used instead of the preterit of weak verbs, with an infinitive.

   Ik dee em en Kado geven!

   I gave him a present!

5. (auxiliary, preterite) always used in a subordinate clause with wenn, sometimes also with dat.

   So worr dat düüster wenn de Sünn ünnergahn dee

   It became dark when the sun went down!

Conjugation

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dúnaid, dúinid (“shuts, closes; blocks, obstructs; joins, clasps; closes, ends”).

Alternative forms

• dooin

Verb

doon (past ghoon, future independent doonee, verbal noun dooney, past participle doont)

1. close, shut

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dún, from Proto-Celtic *d?nom (“stronghold”).

Noun

doon m (genitive singular doon, plural doonyn)

1. fort, fastness

2. stronghold, bastion

Mutation

Middle English

Adjective

doon

1. done

Scots

Etymology

From Old English d?ne, aphetic form of ad?ne, from of d?ne (“off the hill”).

Adverb

doon (comparative mair doon, superlative maist doon)

1. down

Preposition

doon

1. down

Derived terms

• doon the stair

Somali

Verb

doon

1. want, hope, aspire

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?on/

Adverb

doon

1. there (far from both the speaker and the listener)