"coon" Definition

Definitions for the word "coon" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
1 us racoon. 2 slang offens. Black. [abbreviation]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
abbreviation of racoon.—_American._ A GONE COON—_ditto_, one in an awful fix, past praying for. This expression is said to have originated in the first American war with a spy, who dressed himself in a racoon skin, and ensconced himself in a tree. An English rifleman taking him for a veritable coon, levelled his piece at him, upon which he exclaimed, “Don’t shoot, I’ll come down of myself, I know I’m a GONE COON.” The Yankees say the Britisher was so “flummuxed,” that he flung down his rifle and “made tracks” for home. The phrase is pretty general in England. [There is one difficulty about this story—How big was the man who dressed himself in a racoon skin?]
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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