Goon vs Coon - What's the difference?
goon | coon |
A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (ice hockey, pejorative) An enforcer or fighter.
(Australia, countable, informal) A wine flagon or cask.
* 2009 , , Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?: Misadventures in Music ,
(Australia, uncountable, informal) Cheap or inferior cask wine.
* 2010 , , The Mary Smokes Boys ,
* 2010 , Jason Leung, This All Encompassing Trip: Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World ,
* 2011 , E.C. McSween, et al., Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like ,
(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 goon and coon
is that goon is a thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon') while coon is a raccoon.As a verb coon is
to hunt racoons.goon
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (gooney), from obsolete gony'' ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. ''Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). Goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921). * The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character series. * The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon , born rather too early she suspected.}}
Derived terms
* goony * goon squadSee also
* goonie * gooney * gooney birdEtymology 2
Diminutive slang for flagon.Noun
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- We drank goons of cheap wine.
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- ‘On the night of our school graduation he stole a flagon of goon wine and disappeared into the woods. The police found him the next day asleep on the creek.’
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- With these instructions, we take turns sipping the wine directly from the bottle on the beach. It?s not the classiest thing to do but the fact that it?s in a bottle already makes it classier than all the boxes of goon we?ve consumed this trip.
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- Red wine was consumed largely by posh folk, white wine meant goon , mention of a Jägerbomb would have sent its father ducking for cover, and ‘sex on the beach’ meant just that.
Synonyms
* box wine * cask wineAnagrams
* Australian English ----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.