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co⋅ny

  [koh-nee, kuhn-ee]
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–noun, plural -nies.
1. the fur of a rabbit, esp. when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
2. the daman or other hyrax of the same genus.
3. the pika.
4. a rabbit.
5. Obsolete. a person who is easily tricked; gull; dupe.
Also, coney.

Origin:
1150–1200; ME, back formation from conyes < OF conis, pl. of conil < L cunīculus rabbit, burrow, a word said to be of Iberian orig., according with evidence that the rabbit spread through Europe from NW Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
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co·ney 1 also co·ny   (kō'nē, kŭn'ē)   
n.   pl. co·neys also co·nies

  1. A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).

  2. The fur of a rabbit.

  3. See pika.

  4. See hyrax.

    1. A grouper (Epinephelus fulvus) of the tropical Atlantic, having dark brown or sharply bicolored skin and a few blue and black spots.

    2. Chiefly Florida Keys & West Indies Either of two related fish, the red hind or the graysby.

  6. Archaic A dupe; a simpleton.


[Middle English coni, from Old French conis, pl. of conil, from Latin cunīculus, possibly from cunnus, cunus, female pudenda.]
co·ny   (kō'nē, kŭn'ē)   
n.  Variant of coney1.
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