See cooning in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "cooning (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "73 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "86 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Hunting",
"orig": "en:Hunting",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1876, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76",
"text": "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."
},
{
"ref": "1875, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73",
"text": "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"
},
{
"ref": "1932, The Atlantic Monthly, volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635",
"text": "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..."
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
31,
40
]
],
"ref": "1950, William A. Owens, compiler, Texas Folk Songs, page 245:",
"text": "I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning,\nSays I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”\n“Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,\nI’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
113,
120
]
],
"english": "“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.”",
"ref": "1962, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Courier Dover Publications,, →ISBN, page 276:",
"text": "“Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”",
"translation": "“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.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Racoon hunting."
],
"id": "en-cooning-en-noun-feUUB2Dm",
"links": [
[
"Racoon",
"racoon"
],
[
"hunting",
"hunting"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkuːnɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːnɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "cooning"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "cooning",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "coon"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of coon"
],
"id": "en-cooning-en-verb-6Z9CHrRz",
"links": [
[
"coon",
"coon#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkuːnɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːnɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "cooning"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/uːnɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/uːnɪŋ/2 syllables",
"en:Hunting"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "cooning (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1876, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76",
"text": "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."
},
{
"ref": "1875, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73",
"text": "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"
},
{
"ref": "1932, The Atlantic Monthly, volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635",
"text": "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..."
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
31,
40
]
],
"ref": "1950, William A. Owens, compiler, Texas Folk Songs, page 245:",
"text": "I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning,\nSays I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”\n“Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,\nI’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
113,
120
]
],
"english": "“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.”",
"ref": "1962, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Courier Dover Publications,, →ISBN, page 276:",
"text": "“Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”",
"translation": "“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.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Racoon hunting."
],
"links": [
[
"Racoon",
"racoon"
],
[
"hunting",
"hunting"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkuːnɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːnɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "cooning"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/uːnɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/uːnɪŋ/2 syllables",
"en:Hunting"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "cooning",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "coon"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of coon"
],
"links": [
[
"coon",
"coon#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkuːnɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːnɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "cooning"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cooning meaning in English (3.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.