Coontown
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkuːntaʊn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkuntaʊn/
Proper noun
[edit]Coontown
- (US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by black people.
- 2011 November 2, Gary Phillips, Andrea Gibbons, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion (Switchblade)[2], PM Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
- “Pretty sure. Black folk don't usually come this far through the woods and white folks almost never go through the woods toward Coontown.”
- 2017 April 24, Bob Wolfe, “It doesn't take long to realize after you start reading, this is 100% nigger!”, in soc.culture.african.american[3] (Usenet):
- This story could be nothing but 100% pure niggertry, even without the
name. Also, what is a halfway-house full of niggers doing in a town
named "Happy Valley"? If they insist on running these nigger nests,
they belond[sic] STRICTLY in Coontown.