English Dictionary

coon

IPA（発音記号）

/kun/

動詞

南部アメリカ英語 口語 固有名詞 アフリカ系アメリカ人英語 古風

(Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons. / (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge. / (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.

日本語の意味

（南部米国、口語）アライグマを狩る / （クライミング）縁や岩場などを腹這いで這って渡る / （南部米国、口語）小川を渡る際に、両脚を広げながら這う

Every autumn, we coon after dark with our dogs and lanterns.

毎年秋になると、私たちは犬とランタンを連れて日が暮れてからアライグマ狩りをします。

意味（1）

(Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.

意味（2）

(climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.

意味（3）

(Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.

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.

意味（4）

(Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.

意味（5）

(African-American Vernacular, of an African-American English) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.

Rather than cooning or tomming it up to please whites...the black comic characters joked or laughed or acted the fool with one another. Or sometimes they used humor combatively to outwit the white characters.

意味（6）

(Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.

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.

coons （ present singular third-person ）

cooning （ participle present ）

cooned （ participle past ）

cooned （ past ）