cooned

Verb

coon (third-person singular simple present coons, present participle cooning, simple past and past participle cooned)

1. (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
2. To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
3. (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
   • 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.a. 1917, Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”, Outing, W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216
4. (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
5. (African-American Vernacular) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
   • 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.1994, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks, An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 234
6. (Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
   • 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.1940, John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men, Robert Hale Limited, page 58

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