coon-dick

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Noun

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coon-dick (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of coon dick.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 176:
      ’Tain’t a thing wrong that a quart of coon-dick wouldn’t cure. You haven’t been gettin’ yo’ right likker lately, eh?”
    • 2009, John Allen Boyd, Emerson Avery, That Latin Teacher:
      He say, A quart of coon-dick what yew need, Honey. Then he leave.
    • 2019, Kevin P. Gilheany, Minding the Helm: An Unlikely Career in the U.S. Coast Guard, page 148:
      it was usually filled with “coon-dick toothpicks,” which, he explained, were bones salvaged from the penises of raccoons and used as toothpicks.
    • 2021, Reavis Z. Wortham, Laying Bones:
      He worked the loose knot free and shook the contents out into his hand. A small bone fell out first and Cody grinned, despite the grisly scene. “That's a coon-dick toothpick.”