Cooyah/cuyoo is definitely "coyon/couyon" in Walloon and it is also a card game here. The original meaning is "ball, testicle".Here in Wisconsin the popular Belgian card game has been spelled a couple different ways. Pronounced "koo yo" here, sometimes with almost a Q sound at the beginning.
Apparently it was used to refer to the circle used in the calculation of the scores.
You can find more information in French here for instance:
https://reglesdejeux.github.io/regles-du-jeu-couillon/index.html
(If you use "couillon" in French, it actually means "idiot")
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