Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - coney
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Coney
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or cony noun (plural ~s or conies) Etymology: Middle English conies, plural, from Anglo-French conis, plural of conil, from Latin cuniculus Date: 12th century 1. a. rabbit fur b. (1) rabbit; especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) (2) pika c. hyrax 2. archaic dupe 3. any of several fishes; especially a dusky black-spotted reddish-finned grouper (Epinephelus fulvus syn. Cephalopholis fulva) of the tropical Atlantic
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- Anglo-Norm. conis, pl. of conil "long-eared rabbit," from L. cuniculus, the small, Sp. variant of the It. hare (L. lepus), the word perhaps from Iberian Celtic. Rabbit arose 14c. to mean the young of the species, but gradually pushed out the older word 19c., after British slang picked up coney as a synonym for "cunt" (cf. connyfogle "to deceive in order to win a woman's sexual favors"). The word was in the King James Bible (Prov. xxx.26, etc.), however, so it couldn't be entirely dropped, and the solution was to change the pronunciation of the original long vowel (rhyming with honey, money) to rhyme with boney. Rabbits not being native to northern Europe, there was no Gmc. or Celtic word for them. Cf. species name Lepus cunicula. Brooklyn's Coney Island so called for the rabbits once found there. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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