cooning
/ˈkuːnɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But if he [the dog] 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"
- "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..."
- "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.”"
- "“Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”"