cooncan

English

Etymology

From Spanish con quién (“with whom?”).

Noun

cooncan (uncountable)

1. (card games) A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 110:

     Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.

Synonyms

• conquian