Noon vs Coon - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
(obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
* 1885', When night was at its '''noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17:
(figurative) The highest point; culmination.
* Motley
To relax or sleep around midday
* 1906 , (Andy Adams), The Double Trail
*:Well, we crossed and nooned , lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around.
* 1889 , (Mark Twain), (w, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
*:Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
* 1853 , (Theodore Winthrop), The Canoe and the Saddle
*:We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning , the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
(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 noon and coon
is that noon is the ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon while coon is a raccoon.As verbs the difference between noon and coon
is that noon is to relax or sleep around midday while coon is to hunt racoons.noon
English
(wikipedia noon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.Noun
(en noun)- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Antonyms
* (middle of the night) midnightSee also
*Verb
(en verb)Chapter XX
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* English palindromes ----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.