different between toon vs coon

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of cartoon.

Noun

toon (plural toons)

1. (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
2. (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
3. (informal, by extension) Only used in loony toon or looney toon, alternative forms of loony tune, which see.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (t?n), from Sanskrit ???? (tu?i, “Cedrela toona”).

Noun

toon (countable and uncountable, plural toons)

1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
2. The wood of this tree.

Synonyms

• (tree): Australian red cedar
• (wood): toonwood

Translations

Etymology 3

Dialectal variant of town.

Pronunciation

• (Geordie) IPA^(key): [tu?n]

Noun

toon (plural toons)

1. (Tyneside) A town.

Translations

See also

• Toon

Etymology 4

Noun

toon (plural toons)

1. Eye dialect spelling of tune

References

• List of English words of Sanskrit origin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• noot, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, oont, tono-

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch toon, dialectal form of teen, from Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *t?a, from Proto-Germanic *taihw?. The vocalism -oo- is also present in some Dutch dialects in Utrecht and Holland, but seems unclear. The -n was originally a plural ending that was reanalysed as a singular form.

Noun

toon (plural tone, diminutive toontjie)

1. toe (part of the foot)

Derived terms

• langtoon

Etymology 2

From Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

Noun

toon (plural tone)

1. tone, pitch

Etymology 3

From Dutch tonen, from Middle Dutch tônen, from Old Dutch *t?nen.

Verb

toon (present toon, present participle tonende, past participle getoon)

1. (transitive) to show, to demonstrate

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?n/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [to?n]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [to??n]
• Hyphenation: toon
• Rhymes: -o?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

Noun

toon m (plural tonen, diminutive toontje n)

1. tone

Derived terms

• grondtoon
• kiestoon
• tonaal
• toonhoogte
• toonladder
• sloottoon

Descendants

• Afrikaans: toon
• ? Indonesian: ton, tona (from plural)

Etymology 2

Noun

toon m (plural tonen, diminutive toontje n)

1. (dialectal) Dated form of teen (“toe”).
2. (archaic) The front portion of a hoof.

Usage notes

Still used in some dialects in Utrecht and Holland in the meaning “toe”. This variant seems to have been quite common in Hollandic dialects until the 19th century. Similar forms have also been found to exist in certain West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon dialects.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

toon

1. first-person singular present indicative of tonen
2. imperative of tonen

Anagrams

• noot

Sambali

Noun

toón

1. (anatomy) nape

Somali

Noun

toon m

1. garlic

Yucatec Maya

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tò?n]

Noun

toon (plural toono?ob)

1. penis

   Synonym: keep

References

• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ?ISBN, page 77

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-