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Cohee

Cohee proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Cohee (plural Cohees)

  1. A surname from Irish.

Noun

Cohee (plural Cohees)

  1. A person living in or west of the mountainous areas of western Virginia and West Virginia.
    • Small-farm “Cohees” of the Shenandoah were mainly German and Scotch-Irish. They were industrious, duty-loving, puritanical. Rivalry and antipathy between Tuckahoe and Cohee began early, and still exists today.1961, Marshall William Fishwick, Gentlemen of Virginia
    • Even closer to home, Johnny watches with growing concern the widening gulf between the stable and “civilized” Tidewater inhabitants, the Tuckahoes of Old Virginia, and the settlers of the Appalachian frontier, the Cohees of New Virginia, […]1995, Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 23

Forms of Cohee

Proper noun
pluralCohees
alternative formCohea
alternative formCoohee
Noun
pluralCohees

Origin of Cohee

Munster variant of Coffey.

Questions about Cohee

What does Cohee mean?
Cohee means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Cohee?
Cohee can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Cohee in the dictionary

  1. coheadliners
  2. coheadlines
  3. coheadlining
  4. coheads
  5. Coheas
  6. Cohee
  7. Cohees
  8. coheight
  9. coheights
  10. coheir
  11. coheiress

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