zip coon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A black man. US,derogatory,ethnic,obsolete,offensive
    — Arter a while we got done—but it looked like I had bad luck for in sittin' down agin I lik'd to have sot on Barbry's tom cat, which if I had, I shoulder bin like Kurnel Zip Coon's wife who jump'd into a holler log to mash two young panters to deth, and they scratched her so bad she couldn t set down for two munse.
  2. A black person who accepts an inferior social status to white people. dated
    — There were many names for the coon stock character. He has been referred to as the urban zip coon, dancing dandy, and, most notably, Sambo, the happy slave.

词形变化

zip coons plural zip-coon alternative Zip Coon alternative

词源

From a minstrel song titled Ole Zip Coon (1834) about a minstrel show character named Zip Coon. The song stereotypically portrays Zip Coon as unintelligent and incapable of assimilating into white American society.
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