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Word: Coon
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 18th century: short for raccoon. coon (sense 2) is from an earlier US slang sense, meaning ‘sly fellow’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
kuːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a raccoon.
Definition:
a contemptuous term for a black person.
Short Definition:contemptuous term for black person
