coconut
See also: coco-nut
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From coco + nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or Black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins and the slur that they are "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯.kə.nʌt]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰəʊ̯.kə.nʌt], [ˈkʰəʊ̯.kə.nɐt]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkəʉ.kə.nat/, [ˈkʰəʉ̯.kə.nat]
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- Rhymes: -əʊkənʌt
Noun
[edit]coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- 1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 291:
- The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- The coconut palm.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a race traitor.
- 1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez[1], Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
- After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?
- (South Africa, Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
- 2016 June 8, “Containment”, in Cleverman, episode 2, spoken by Waruu West [speaking to half-brother Koen West]:
- Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.
- (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
- (slang) A female breast.
- (slang) The human head.
- Synonym: nut
- 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, 2, page 19:
- [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]
Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--
Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.
- 2021, Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe[2]:
- 'How unfortunate.'
'Yes. It's rather causing him to go off his coconut. He's met a girl, you see. A peach.'
Hypernyms
[edit]- (fruit): fruit
- (POC assimilated into white culture): race traitor
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- boko
- coconana
- coconut ant
- coconut apple
- coconut bowl
- coconut butter
- coconut cadang-cadang viroid
- coconut cotyledon
- coconut crab (Birgus latro)
- coconut cream
- coconut curd
- coconut doggy
- coconut embryo
- coconut extract
- coconut flake
- coconut geranium (Pelargonium grossularioides et al.)
- coconut head
- coconut heart
- coconut jelly
- coconut kernel
- coconut macaroon
- coconut matting
- coconut meat
- coconut milk
- coconut money
- coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)
- coconut oil
- coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)
- coconut pearl
- coconut pudding
- coconut roll
- coconut sap
- coconut shrimp
- coconut shy
- coconut snowball
- coconut soup
- coconut spider
- coconut sprout
- coconut tinangaja viroid
- coconut tree (Cocos nucifera)
- coconutty
- coconut vinegar
- coconut washboard
- coconut water
- coconut wine
- coconut wireless
- coconut worm
- cocovore
- common tall coconut
- creamed coconut
- cream of coconut
- cream of coconut soup
- death by coconut
- desiccated coconut
- double coconut
- dried coconut
- dwarf coconut
- dwarf green coconut
- dwarf orange coconut
- dwarf yellow coconut
- east coast tall coconut
- Fiji dwarf coconut
- flaked coconut
- forest coconut (Voanioala gerardii)
- golden Malayan dwarf coconut
- Golden Malay coconut
- green coconut
- Green Malay coconut
- jelly coconut
- jelly-coconut
- king coconut
- macapuno coconut
- Malayan dwarf coconut
- Maypan coconut
- Nawassi coconut
- red coconut
- sea coconut
- shredded coconut
- sprouted coconut
- that accounts for the milk in the coconut
- use one's coconut
- water coconut
- west coast tall coconut
- yellow coconut
Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: ココナッツ (kokonattsu)
Translations
[edit]fruit of coco palm
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shelled seed
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edible flesh of coconut fruit
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coconut palm — see coconut palm
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