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Joncanoe

Joncanoe is the archaic form of junkanoo.

Meaning of junkanoo

Noun

junkanoo (countable and uncountable, plural junkanoos)

  1. A parade held in the Bahamas.
  2. A style of goombay traditionally played on goatskin drums and cowbells during the parade.
    • Rafael sang from his stuffings, the beat swirled, the brass blasted, and in a three-month period, America bought a bargeful of the Munings' "junkanoo" sound.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 274

Questions about Joncanoe

What is Joncanoe the archaic form of?
Joncanoe is the archaic form of junkanoo.

Words near Joncanoe in the dictionary

  1. Jonatics
  2. Jonava
  3. jonbar hinge
  4. jonbar hinges
  5. JonBenét
  6. Joncanoe
  7. jone
  8. joned
  9. Jonelle
  10. Jonerys
  11. jones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Joncanoe (page history and authors); junkanoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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