coon vs nigger

coon

noun
  • A black person. 

  • A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations. 

  • A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians. 

  • A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps. 

  • A raccoon. 

verb
  • To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek. 

  • To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes. 

  • To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians. 

  • To traverse by crawling, as a ledge. 

  • To hunt raccoons. 

nigger

noun
  • A black person; a person of black African descent. 

  • A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse). 

  • A fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata). 

  • A friend, particularly a fellow black person, often used as an informal term of address. 

  • A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger). 

  • A person of black African descent who acts in an unapproved manner (whether positive or negative). 

verb
  • To perform in blackface. 

  • To behave as a stereotypical black person. 

  • To treat as inferior. 

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