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Cooney

Cooney proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Cooney (countable and uncountable, plural Cooneys)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A ghost town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio, United States.

Forms of Cooney

pluralCooneys

Origin of Cooney

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuana (“descendant of Cuana”), a personal name either derived from cú (“hound”) or cuanna (“elegant, comely”).

Words formed from Cooney

Questions about Cooney

What does Cooney mean?
Cooney means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Cooney?
Cooney is a proper noun.

Words near Cooney in the dictionary

  1. cooned it
  2. Cooner
  3. Cooners
  4. coonery
  5. Coones
  6. Cooney
  7. Cooneys
  8. Cooneys Creek
  9. coonfuse
  10. coonfused
  11. coonfuses

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