Definitions
an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America
Word origin
From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkuněm (“he scratches with his hands”).
Used in a sentence
“Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.”
“The Rackoone is a deepe furred beaſt, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tovver.”
“Thus we're presented with[…]a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Masked nocturnal mammal”7 letters
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