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Cooping vs Cooning - What's the difference?

cooping | cooning |

As verbs the difference between cooping and cooning

is that cooping is while cooning is .

As nouns the difference between cooping and cooning

is that cooping is the practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election while cooning is racoon hunting.

cooping

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    • Noun

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  • The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.
  • * 1907 , William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2
    • The restriction (1835) of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping .
  • * 1977 , Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, Edward C. Papenfuse, Morris Leon Radoff, Law, society, and politics in early Maryland
    • Cooping , the political version of the shanghai, involved kidnapping citizens...
  • * 2001 , Paul Knepper, Explaining criminal conduct: theories and systems in criminology
    • The Tories also engaged in "cooping ," intimidating people into voting Tory.

    cooning

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    Noun

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  • Racoon hunting.
  • * 1876 , John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine , part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76
    • At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
  • * 1875 , John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine , part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73
    • But if he [the dog''] strikes a trail, you presently hear''... loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
  • * 1932 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635
    • These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, “foxing, snaking, moling, cooning , possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;” who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...
  • * 1950 , William A. Owens (compiler), Texas Folk Songs , page 245
    • I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning ,
    Says I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”
    “Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,
    I’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”
  • * 1962 , Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages , Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0486209857, page 276
    • “Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”
    “Oh, I reckon so. Y-e-s! Down a piece in the hardwood bush near Widdy Biddy Baggs’s place there’s lots o’ likely Cooning ground.”

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