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Cony

//ˈkoʊ.ni// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of City of New York. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of CONY alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).

    "I were skynnes of conny, / That causeth I loke so donny."

  2. 2
    any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food wordnet
  3. 3
    Rabbit fur. UK, dialectal
  4. 4
    small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America wordnet
  5. 5
    Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
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  1. 6
    any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes wordnet
  2. 7
    Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).; Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew שָׁפָן (shafán), thought to be the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, syn. Hyrax syriacus).
  3. 8
    A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher. obsolete

    "It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher."

  4. 9
    An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua, the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus; Cephalopholis fulva.
  5. 10
    Any of certain members of family Epinephelidae of Atlantic groupers, such as mutton hamlets, graysby, Cuban coneys, and rooster hinds.
  6. 11
    A burbot. UK, dialectal
  7. 12
    A woman; a sweetheart. obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English cony, back formation from conies (plural), from Anglo-Norman conis, the plural of connil (“rabbit”), from Latin cunīculus, of unknown origin. Cognate to Catalan conill, Dutch konijn, German Kaninchen, Spanish conejo, and Portuguese coelho. The original pronunciation was /ˈkʌni/ (for the spelling, compare honey and money), but the similarity to cunt (and particularly homophony with cunny) led through taboo avoidance both to the word's displacement in the main by rabbit and bunny and to the spelling-pronunciation /ˈkəʊni/ becoming standard.

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