cunny

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.ni/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Etymology 1

See cony.

Noun

cunny (plural cunnies)

1. Obsolete form of cony (“rabbit”).
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     What? shall Philosophie […] make me like a fearfull cunnie creepe into some lurking-hole, and like a craven to tremble and yeeld?

Related terms

• cuniculus
• cuniculture

Etymology 2

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). In sense 2, reinterpreted as a portmanteau of cute + funny.

Noun

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies) (vulgar)

1. (countable, diminutive) A cunt; a vulva.
   • a. 1593, C. Marlowe, Ovids Elegies, published c. 1602, page sig. B3:

     The whore stands to be bought for each mans mony,
     And seekes vild wealth by selling of her Cony.

   • 1599, H. Porter, Pleasant Historie of Two Angrie Women of Abington, page sig. H2v:

     O let me alone to grope for Cunnies.

2. (countable, fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva, Thesaurus:vagina

   1. (countable, synecdochic) A loli; a child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive.
   2. (uncountable, metonymic) Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).

Derived terms

• cnuuy
• cunny-hunter
• cunnysseur
• cunny-warren
• cute and funny

Etymology 3

From con +‎ -y. Compare English canny.

Adjective

cunny (comparative more cunny, superlative most cunny)

1. (now especially Jamaica) Cunning.
   • 2000, Donna Maxine Weir, Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures, page 175:

     Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'

Further reading

• 2002, Dictionary of Jamaican English page 136
• “cunny, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cunny”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.