Title: coon | Origin and meaning of coon by Online Etymology Dictionary
Headings: coon (n.)
coon (n.)
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Content: Also, in Western U.S., "a person" generally, especially a sly, knowing person (1832). Coon's age is 1843, American English, probably an alteration of British a crow's age. ( Crows are famously long-lived. Compare Greek tri-koronos "long-lived," literally "having three times the age of a crow." But raccoons are not.) Gone coon (1839) was used of a person who is in a very bad way or a hopeless condition. Others are reading