Cony

Quick meaning: Cony is a noun meaning A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).

Meaning

A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).

More Meanings

1. (UK, dialect) Rabbit fur.
2. Any of certain members of family Epinephelidae of Atlantic groupers, such as mutton hamlets, graysby, Cuban coneys, and rooster hinds.
3. (UK, dialect) A burbot.
4. Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
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.
6. (obsolete) A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
7. (obsolete) A woman; a sweetheart.

Example Sentences

I were skynnes of conny, / That causeth I loke so donny.

It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher.

ORLANDO. Are you native of this place? / ROSALIND. As the cony that you see / dwell where she is kindled.

Word Forms

• conies
• coney
• connie

Synonyms for cony

Depending on context, synonyms include bunny, hare, coney, hyrax, dassie, pika.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rabbit, coney, pika, hyrax, dassie, das.

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