cony

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noun

Plural noun:

coniesconeycunnyconnie

1.
A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).
2.
(UK, dialectal)(UK, dialect) Rabbit fur.
3.
Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
4.
(obsolete)A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
5.
An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua, the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus; Cephalopholis fulva.
6.
Any of certain members of family Epinephelidae of Atlantic groupers, such as mutton hamlets, graysby, Cuban coneys, and rooster hinds.
7.
(UK, dialectal)(UK, dialect) A burbot.
8.
(obsolete)A woman; a sweetheart.

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bunny hare coneyrabbit bunny, haretropical West Atlantic groupers coneyburbot coney-fish

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butter the conycony woolConey Island

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From Middle English cony, back formation from conies, from conis, the plural of connil (rabbit), from Latin cunīculus, of unknown origin. Cognate to conill, konijn, Kaninchen, conejo, and coelho. The original pronunciation was (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 i…