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Pronunciation
Noun
cooning (uncountable)
- Racoon hunting.
- 1876, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76
- At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
- 1875, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73
- But if he strikes a trail, you presently hear...loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
- 1932, The Atlantic Monthly, volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635
- These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, “foxing, snaking, moling, cooning, possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;” who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...
1950, William A. Owens, compiler, Texas Folk Songs, page 245:I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning,
Says I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”
“Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,
I’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”
1962, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Courier Dover Publications,, →ISBN, page 276:“Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”- “Oh, I reckon so. Y-e-s! Down a piece in the hardwood bush near Widdy Biddy Baggs’s place there’s lots o’ likely Cooning ground.”
Verb
cooning
- present participle and gerund of coon