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corey

/ˈkɔː.ɹi//ˈkɔ.ɹi/

corey noun: a penis.

Noun

corey (plural coreys)

  1. (UK, slang, vulgar) A penis.
    • She always gets the numbers right, she's got me into maths / I'd take away her pants and add my corey to her gash2004, Kunt and the Gang, “Carol Vorderman”, in I Have a Little Wank and I Have a Little Cry
    • 'Georgie knows what she's doin', Nan. She says she only lets Ryan touch her titties and she's not gonna touch his cory until he marries her.'2011, Kimberley Chambers, The Victim, Random House, →ISBN, page 317

Proper noun capitalized: Corey

Corey

  1. An English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).
  2. A surname from Irish, a variant anglicization of Ó Comhraidhe (Curry).
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • Miss Carroll's popularity doesn't end with her on-screen performances in the show which co-stars young Marc Copage as her precocious six-year-old son, Corey Baker, whose father Capt. Baker was killed in Vietnam.1968 October 17, Jet, volume 35, number 2, page 61
    • Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, dove onto family members when the shots rang out.2024 July 15, Mike Wendling, “Corey Comperatore: Volunteer firefighter killed at Trump rally dived to protect family”, in BBC, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025
  4. (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori.
    • "I'm Millicent Banning and —" she pushed Corey forward "— this is my daughter Catherine, but we all call her Corey."1996, Barbara Bretton, Guilty Pleasures, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 156

Synonyms of corey

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Forms of corey

Noun
pluralcoreys
alternative formcory
alternative formkory
Proper noun
alternative formCory
alternative formKory
alternative formKorey

Origin of corey

Borrowed from Angloromani kor, kori, korri, kuri (“penis”), from Romani kar (“penis”), from Prakrit *𑀓𑀸𑀝 (*kāṭa, “stick, penis”).

Words formed from corey

Words that rhyme with corey

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Questions about corey

What does corey mean?
Corey means a penis.
What part of speech is corey?
Corey can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce corey?
Corey is pronounced /ˈkɔː.ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of corey?
The plural of corey is coreys.

Words near corey in the dictionary

  1. corestones
  2. corethrellid
  3. corethrellids
  4. Coretta
  5. coreward
  6. corey
  7. coreys
  8. corf
  9. corfe
  10. Corfe Castle
  11. Corfe Mullen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corey (page history and authors); Corey (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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