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coonhound
English
Alternative forms
- coon hound
Etymology
coon +? hound
Noun
coonhound (plural coonhounds)
- (countable) Any of several American breeds of dog originally used in hunting raccoons.
Translations
Hypernyms
- (kind of dog): dog
Hyponyms
- (kind of dog): black and tan coonhound, bluetick coonhound, English coonhound, Plott hound, redbone coonhound, treeing Walker coonhound
See also
- coonhound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- coonhound on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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raccoon
English
Alternative forms
- racoon [from 17th c.]
- rarowcun [17th c.]
- r'coon (colloquial contraction)
Etymology
From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkun?m (“he scratches with his hands”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???ku?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æ?kun/, /???kun/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
raccoon (plural raccoons)
- A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
- 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:
- The Rackoone is a deepe furred beast, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tower.
- 2010, Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian, 3 Apr 2010:
- Thus we're presented with […] a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
- Any mammal of the genus Procyon.
- Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
- Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
Synonyms
- (Procyon lotor): coon (colloquial), common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, trash panda
Derived terms
- coon
- coon dog
- coonhound
- Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)
- crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus)
- in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age
- pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)
- raccoon butterfly (Chaetodon fasciatus)
- raccoon butterflyfish, (Chaetodon lunula)
- raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
- raccoon eyes
Translations
Anagrams
- carcoon
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