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Since the raccoon is a new-world animal, this form of it clearly originated in America, most likely the rural South. The expression is older, however. Haven't seen you in an ass's (or donkey's or hound's) age is an old English countryside way of saying "for many years."

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Q: Where did the expression in a coon's age originate?
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