Noun: caroon
| Singular | caroon |
| Plural | caroons |
Sample Sentences
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Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon. [1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:]
Nouns inflected like caroon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A corruption of the Sabir and Italian corona (“crown”). See: Italian Nouns '
corona'.