coon:
(plural: ‘coons‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a black person;
an old, indecent person; a rustic;
(in South Africa) a person born of parents of different colours, i.e. mother from Africa and father from India, or father from Africa and mother from India;
(in Australia) a black or native (aboriginal),
Mr. Thomas is very old, but does he have to be such a coon that everybody avoids him?
The professor visiting the aborigines in the Australian outback was shocked to learn that those innocent people were called coons.
After getting apartheid abolished, the differences between different kinds of coloured people South Africa has become a more serious problem than apartheid itself — differences between native blacks and Asians, between Asians and coons and between Indians and Chinese.
Note 2: ‘Coon’, always with a capital ‘c’, is often found in the surnames of people, e.g. Jermey Coon, Gene Coon, Carlton Coon, etc. For an article that explains the interesting origin of this word as a surname/family name/last name, please click here.
