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cunny

/ˈkʌ.ni/

cunny is the obsolete form of cony.

Noun

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies)

  1. (countable, diminutive, vulgar) A cunt; a vulva.
    • The whore stands to be bought for each mans mony,
      And seekes vild wealth by selling of her Cony.a. 1593, C. Marlowe, Ovids Elegies, published c. 1602, page sig. B3
    • O let me alone to grope for Cunnies.1599, H. Porter, Pleasant Historie of Two Angrie Women of Abington, page sig. H2v
  2. (countable, slang, vulgar) A loli; a child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive.
  3. (metonymically, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).

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

Adjective

cunny (comparative more cunny, superlative most cunny)

  1. (Jamaica, especially, vulgar) Cunning.
    • Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'2000, Donna Maxine Weir, Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures, page 175

Synonyms of cunny

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Forms of cunny

Noun
pluralcunnies
Adjective
comparativemore cunny
superlativemost cunny

Origin of cunny

See cony.

Originally a specific sense of coney (developed from its use as a pet name for a woman), reinforced by association with cunt and the suffix -y (equivalent to cunt + -y).

From con + -y. Compare English canny.

Words formed from cunny

  • cunny-hunter
  • cunny-warren
  • cnuuy
  • cunnysseur
  • kani

Questions about cunny

What does cunny mean?
Cunny means a cunt; a vulva.
What is cunny the obsolete form of?
Cunny is the obsolete form of cony.
What part of speech is cunny?
Cunny can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce cunny?
Cunny is pronounced /ˈkʌ.ni/.
What is the plural of cunny?
The plural of cunny is cunnies.

Words near cunny in the dictionary

  1. cunningnesses
  2. cunnings
  3. Cunnington
  4. Cunningtons
  5. Cunninyeuk
  6. cunny
  7. cunny-catching
  8. Cuno
  9. cunoniaceous
  10. Cunos
  11. cuns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cunny (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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