Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US, also coocha-coocha (dance)) a ‘hootchy-kootchy’ dance, i.e. belly-dancing; thus cooch artiste/dancer, coocher, a belly dancer (cf. kootch n. (1)).

1895		Mirror of Life 7 Sept. 3/2: A quiet tip to the effect that a coocha-coocha dance would be given by two nude female dancers in the rooms of the Old Jolitie Club, in West New York, caused about half a hundred admirers of the undraped human figure to [...] plank down their dollars.
1896		Pittsburgh Post (PA) 1 Apr.5/6: [headline] stopped their dance / Two Coocha-Coocha Maidens Arrested [...] Detective Denniston arrested two young women last night who do the ‘cooch-coocha’ [etc].
1903		implied in cooch show
1910		in Variety 10 Sept. 20: Her ‘cooch’ [...] is also suggestive.
1930		Variety 3 Sept. 77/3: Sheriffs refuse to stand for cooch dancers [DA].
1933		(con. 1890s) H. Asbury Barbary Coast 132: Some of the most noted cooch artistes of the day appeared at the Midway Plaisance, among them [...] the original Little Egypt, who first danced in San Francisco in 1897, a few years after her triumphs in the Streets of Cairo show at the first Chicago World’s Fair.
1937		‘Boxcar Bertha’ Sister of the Road (1975) 224: Goldie [...] offered to marry her to break up her affair with Polly the cootch dancer.
1940		C. Rawson Headless Lady (1987) 33: One of the grass-skirted cooch dancers was knitting busily at a small pink sweater.
1953		W. Hopson ‘The Ice Man Came’ in Thrilling Detective Winter 🌐 He was making things a little rough for Leota, our prettiest cooch dancer.
1960		(con. 1930s) R. Barber Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) 295: Sumner essayed to describe Fifi’s cooch and got all tangled up in a gnarl of rhetoric [...] ‘You know, Your Honour. Movements that suggest . . ’.
1968		(con. late 19C) S. Longstreet Wilder Shore 137: The Plaisance in its reinterpretations exposed the best of the coochers. Little Egypt showed her smooth round belly there.
1972		R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words.

2. (US) the vagina; thus, by metonymy, a woman.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1967		Current Sl. II:2 9: Cooch, n. A desirable girl.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 54: cooch 1. [...] any woman. ‘I was twenty-four before I knew that a Bloody Mary wasn’t a cooch in her period.’.
1997		(con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 157: I’ve only got to sniff some white cooch, governor, and I’m there.
2000		R. Antoni Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 109: A half-naked soldier chasing a baby baboo [...] waving a Franklin in the air behind him calling cutchie-cutchie-cutchie!
2000		in W. Shaw Westsiders 382: Cooch screamin’ / Meat cleanin’ / Creamin’ / Tag teamin’.
2006		at www.incestquest.com 🌐 [cartoon caption] All I know is that my cootch was getting kinda sore.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] Giving up her over-valued cooch for an extra spoonful of peanut butter.

3. (US gay) an effeminate homosexual male.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 72: stereotype effeminate homosexual [...] cooch.