cooncan
cooncan noun: a card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
Noun
cooncan (uncountable)
- A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
- There was not a dull moment in the dinner for me—nor afterwards when the boys and girls at the piano played the rag-time tunes of their own land, while their elders, inexhaustibly interested, replunged into the discussions of that land's future, till there was talk of coon-can.1913, Rudyard Kipling, “The Edge of the Evening”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 282
- Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 110
- Synonyms:
- conquian
Synonyms of cooncan
Origin of cooncan
From Spanish con quién (“with whom?”).
Questions about cooncan
- What does cooncan mean?
- Cooncan means a card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
- What part of speech is cooncan?
- Cooncan is a noun.
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