Title: coon - Wiktionary
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Content: Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie. 1982, Edwin Van Syckle, The River Pioneers, Early Days on Grays Harbor, Pacific Search Press, page 186: “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. ( Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes. ( African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians . quotations ▼
1994, Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks, An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, page 234: Rather than cooning or tomming it up to please whites ... the black comic characters joked or laughed or acted the fool with one another.