Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
- n. The fur of a rabbit.
- n. See pika.
- n. See hyrax.
- n. A grouper (Epinephelus fulvus) of the tropical Atlantic, having dark brown or sharply bicolored skin and a few blue and black spots.
- n. Chiefly Florida Keys & West Indies Either of two related fish, the red hind or the graysby.
- n. Archaic A dupe; a simpleton.
- n. Informal A Coney Island.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. etc. See cony, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A rabbit. See cony.
- n. (Zoöl.) A fish. See Cony.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
- n. black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
- n. any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
- n. small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
Etymologies
- Back-formation from Middle English plural, conies, from Anglo-Norman conis, plural of conil, from Latin cuniculus 'rabbit', from Proto-Basque *(H)unči (compare Basque untxi). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English coni, from Old French conis, pl. of conil, from Latin cunīculus, possibly from cunnus, cunus, female pudenda. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Such is the hippopotamus, and such is the hyrax, the remarkable rock-haunting animal, which in the authorised translation of the Scriptures is called the "coney," and which in the Revised Version is allowed in the margin to retain its Hebrew name, "shaphan.”
“They usually lie in the open, though often found in graves and in holes in the rocks, from which I have thought that they might be the "coney" mentioned in Scripture.”
“_ “The coney is a lytel beste dwellynge in an hole of the erthe/& thore as he vseth he encreaseth very moche, and therfore he is profitable for man, for he casteth oftentymes in the yere ...”
“The theatres of Shakesepeare's time resounded not just to his great tragedies and comedies but also to more satrical works by the likes of Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, with their lively tales of bawds and coney catchers evoking the teeming life of the city.”
“June 30, 2009 east coast beach volleyball at coney island”
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference east coast beach volleyball at coney island:”
“The chili is also served on small hot dogs with mustard, onions and more of that cheese for a cheese coney.”
“These buildings are located in a vibrant urban core, with bars, sushi joints, high-class restaurants with huge bills and small entrees, and a couple of hot dog places that have been battling for decades for coney dog supremacy.”
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“Thats like saying that we shouldn't eat food that isn't the healthiest in can be, for example, I love coney dogs, but from what I read there isn't one person out there touting the dietary benefits of them, and who cares, I eat them because they are tasty.”
“Henry and Anne enjoyed a private dinner in a small room, feeding each other slices of pears and bits of baked coney.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coney’.
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rabbits,hares,pikas
there are 80 species of lagomorphs
with 6 litters a year ,an average
of 5 .....lagomorph, rabbit, hare, pika, North American pika, black-lipped pika, volcano rabbit, Amami rabbit, pygmy rabbit, swamp rabbit, eastern cottontail, European rabbit and 35 more...
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Furriery
Anything to do with the fur trade.
furriery, badger, trap, trapper, beaver, polecat, fitch, fitchew, mink, chinchilla, rabbit, fur and 47 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Natural History
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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Duped
Those who are easily duped.
cully, cull, gudgeon, gull, gull-gallant, chouse, geck, chump, fall guy, mark, fool, mug and 39 more...
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Islands of New York City
coney, staten, city, manhattan, ellis, governors, hart, liberty, long, roosevelt, hoffman, swinburne and 29 more...
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Broken Land
Welcome to Brooklyn, home to everyone from everywhere.
coney, sheepshead, prospect, vinegar, cyclone, dodger, elevated, fugheddaboudit, hipster, subway, oy, atlantic
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Favourite Etymologies
flak, avocado, cravat, cobalt, kickshaw, brook, smorgasbord, feisty, blatherskite, buckram, execution, oaf and 80 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for coney.
ruzuzu Hare-raising.
“The theatres of Shakesepeare's time resounded not just to his great tragedies and comedies but also to more satrical works by the likes of Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, with their lively tales of bawds and coney catchers evoking the teeming life of the city.”
Dec 14, 2012
bilby Ha, yes.
Especially in light of the examples.
“Henry and Anne enjoyed a private dinner in a small room, feeding each other slices of pears and bits of baked coney.”
Dec 14, 2012
ruzuzu I just added this to my furriery list and was trying to figure out whether it's related to the Spanish word conejo.
That's, um, quite the etymology. Dec 13, 2012
bilby "ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i'd kidnap you
put you in my phrases and meter
you to jones beach
or maybe coney island
or maybe just to my house
lyric you in lilacs
dash you in the rain
blend into the beach
to complement my see
play the lyre for you
ode you with my love song
anything to win you
wrap you in the red Black green
show you off to mama
yeah if i were a poet i'd kid
nap you"
- Nikki Giovanni Dec 11, 2007
lampbane A rabbit. They used to reside on the island of the same name (which is no longer an island, but that's another story). Dec 18, 2006