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connie

/ˈkɒ.ni/

connie is the obsolete form of cony.

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

See all 9 meanings of cony

Proper noun capitalized: Connie

Connie

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of Concepción.
  2. A diminutive of the male given names Constantine, Conrad, Cornelius or, rarely, of Conway.

Noun capitalized: Connie

Connie (plural Connies)

  1. (informal) The Lockheed Constellation airliner.

Forms of connie

pluralconnies
pluralConnies

Origin of connie

Diminutives + -ie.

Phrases with connie

Questions about connie

What does connie mean?
Connie means a diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of Concepción.
What is connie the obsolete form of?
Connie is the obsolete form of cony.
What part of speech is connie?
Connie can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce connie?
Connie is pronounced /ˈkɒ.ni/.

Words near connie in the dictionary

  1. connexosome
  2. connexosomes
  3. Connick
  4. Connicks
  5. connictation
  6. connie
  7. connie agate
  8. connie agates
  9. connie-onnie
  10. connies
  11. Conniff

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