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conies

conies is the plural of cony.

conies is the plural of coney.

Meaning of cony

Noun

cony (plural conies)

  1. A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).
    • I were skynnes of conny, / That causeth I loke so donny.c. 1517 (date written; published c. 1545), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth the Booke Called Elynour Rummynge. The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng per Skelton Laureat.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The...
  2. (UK, dialectal) 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).
    1. Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew שָׁפָן (shafán), thought to be the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, syn. Hyrax syriacus).
  4. (obsolete) A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
    • It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher.1599, Diet's Dry Dinner
  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.
    Synonyms:
    coney

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Meaning of coney

Noun

coney (plural coneys or conies)

  1. (Jamaica) The Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica.

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Questions about conies

What is conies the plural of?
Conies is the plural of cony.

Words near conies in the dictionary

  1. conidiophores
  2. conidiospore
  3. conidiospores
  4. conidium
  5. conids
  6. conies
  7. conifer
  8. coniferaldehyde
  9. conifered
  10. coniferin
  11. coniferine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conies (page history and authors); cony (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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