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cooze

/kuːz/

cooze noun: pussy, vagina.

Noun

cooze (plural coozes)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Pussy, vagina.
    • "It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze," Don Hagarty said.1987, Stephen King, It
    • We kissed a lot, for as long as an hour sometimes, standing in the hall of her dorm, the endless slow tongue friction, the sweet smell of her, my sobbing hard-on moist in my tight undies, her cooze surely sopping.1991, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, All the Visions
  2. (derogatory, slang) A woman (often when viewed as an object of sexual desire).
    • I went out and looked around / Somebody yelled: "There's a cooze in town!"1929, Blind Blake, Diddie Wa Diddie
    • I write this beautiful fuckin' letter, I slave over it, and what happens? The dumb cooze never writes back.1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Proper noun capitalized: Cooze

Cooze

  1. A surname.

Examples of cooze in a sentence

  • The thing is, her cooze was real cute and everything but it stank!2006, National Lampoon Magazine Rack:
  • Okay, the Sherbourne cooze was a bilingual stewardess.2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover:

Forms of cooze

pluralcoozes

Origin of cooze

Uncertain, but compare Danish kusse (“vagina”), Persian کس (kos, “vagina”), vernacular Arabic كُس (kus, “vagina”), and Northern Kurdish qûz (“vagina”). The term may have been introduced to the United States after the Second World War by servicemen who fought in north Africa, but it already existed as a slang term in the blues community as early as 1929.

Words that rhyme with cooze

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Questions about cooze

What does cooze mean?
Cooze means pussy, vagina.
How do you use cooze in a sentence?
The thing is, her cooze was real cute and everything but it stank!
What part of speech is cooze?
Cooze can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cooze?
Cooze is pronounced /kuːz/.
What is the plural of cooze?
The plural of cooze is coozes.

Words near cooze in the dictionary

  1. cooxidation
  2. cooxidations
  3. cooximeter
  4. cooximeters
  5. Cooyal
  6. cooze
  7. coozes
  8. coozie
  9. coozies
  10. coozy
  11. cop

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