Cion vs Coon - What's the difference?
cion | coon |
(chiefly, in botanical senses)
* 1621–1626' (published posthumously in '''1627 ): , ''Sylva Sylvarum?:?or, A Natural History?;?in ten centuries'', century V, ''Experiments in consort touching the putting back or retardation of germination , ¶?421; reprinted in:
* 1838 , The works of Lord Bacon?:?with an introductory essay, and a portrait?;?in two volumes , volume 1,
(informal, chiefly, Southern US) A raccoon.
*1963 Sterling North, Rascal , Avon Books (softcover), p 100:
(racial slur) A black person.
*1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 149:
(informal, South Africa) A person who is a member of a colourfully dressed dancing troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
(ethnic slur) A coonass.
(Southern US, colloquial) To hunt racoons.
(Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
* Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”, Outing , W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216:
* 1957 , The Arkansas Historical Quarterly , volume XVI, Arkansas Historical Association:
* 1982 , Edwin Van Syckle, The River Pioneers'', ''Early Days on Grays Harbor , Pacific Search Press, page 186:
(Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
(African American Vernacular English) For an African American, to play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
* 1994 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks'', ''An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films , page 234:
* 1999 , Nelson George, Elevating the Game'', ''Black Men and Basketball , U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803270852, page 52:
* 2005 , Kermit Ernest Campbell, “gettin’ our groove on”'', ''rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation , Wayne State University Press, ISBN 081432925X, page 80:
* 2006 , A. Khaulid, The Great Book of Fire , Damon Hunter, ISBN 1427602417, page 142:
(Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
* 1940 , John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men , Robert Hale Limited, page 58:
* 1948 , John Donald Kingsley, The Antioch Review , volume VIII:
* 1968 , Bill Adler (compiler), Jay David (editor), Growing Up Black , Morrow, page 200:
* 2006 , Timothy M. Gay, Tris Speaker'', ''The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend , U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803222068, page 37:
As nouns the difference between cion and coon
is that cion is (chiefly|in botanical senses) while coon is (informal|chiefly|southern us) a raccoon.As a verb coon is
(southern us|colloquial) to hunt racoons.cion
English
Noun
(en noun)page 133(London?:?William Ball, Paternoster Row?;?stereotyped and printed by John Childs and son)
- 421.?Men have entertained a conceit that showeth prettily?;?namely, that if you graft a late-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh early, the graft will bear early?;?as a peach upon a cherry?;?and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh late, the graft will bear fruit late?;?as a cherry upon a peach.?But these are but imaginations, and untrue.?The cause is, for that the cion overruleth the stock quite?:?and the stock is but passive only, and giveth aliment, but no motion to the graft.
Anagrams
* * * ----coon
English
Noun
(en noun)- How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon ?
- ‘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 ?’
Derived terms
* coon cat * coonhound * coon hound * coonskin * coon's ageVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- 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.
- “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.
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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 n****** cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?
- 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.
- 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.
- He kept on buying and selling horses, he said, sometimes paying for them in bogus, and sometimes cooning them. It was true he helped Malcolm Burnham break into Fred Able’s store
- 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.
- 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.
