coney
coney noun: the Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica. Also the ellipsis of Coney Island hot dog.
Noun
Proper noun capitalized: Coney
Coney (countable and uncountable, plural Coneys)
- A surname.
- Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024
- An unincorporated community in Crisp County, Georgia, United States.
Also used as
coney is also the ellipsis of Coney Island hot dog.
coney is also the alternative spelling of cony.
Forms of coney
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | coneys |
| plural | conies |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Coneys |
Phrases with coney
Questions about coney
- What does coney mean?
- Coney means the Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica.
- What part of speech is coney?
- Coney can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of coney?
- The plural of coney is coneys.
Words near coney in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: coney (page history and authors); Coney (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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