Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see also under cony and its combs.

the vagina.

1604		Marston Malcontent IV i: My name is Medam Maquerelle; I lie in the old Cunnycourt.
c.1650		Le Strange Merry Passages and Jeasts No. 252 78: Sir William Spring having a wench in examination, upon a matter of Bast–rdie [...] she confesst it was gotten in Cunnigate way just at Cunston Gappe, a place well known in Suffolke.
1655		Mercurius Fumigosus 40 28 Feb.-7 Mar. 317: A ladies Honour, lost last Monday night in Sheet-lane neer Bedford bury right against Smock Alley, by Coney Court.
1661		‘Loves Tenement’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 26: I have a Tenement [...] ’Tis seated near a stinking ditch, / Men call it Cony-hall.
1671		‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 302: If any man do want a House, / Be he Prince, Barronet, or Squire, / Or Peasant, hardly worth a Louse, / I can fit his desire / I have a Tenement, the which / I’m sure can fit them all; / ’Tis seated near a stinking Ditch, / Some call it Cunny-Hall. / It stands close by Cunny-Alley, / At foot of Belly-hill.
1691		‘Womens Delight’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 46: There dwelt a maid in the Cunny-gate, / And she was wondrous fair.
1721		in Penkethman’s Jests II 3: I have a Tenement to Let, / I hope ’twill please you all; / And if you woul’d the Name on’t know, / ’Tis called C—ny-Hall.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 41: I have a tenement to let [...] They call it coney-hall, Sir.
c.1780		The only True LIST, of those celebrated SPORTING LADIES [broadsheet] They may be heard of at Cunny Hall, in Cock Alley.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Coney Court A Court in Grays Inn. To sleep in Coney (i.e. Cunny) Court, to lie all night with a Girl. I Breakfasted in Milk Street, dined in Butcher’s Row, sup’d in Philpot (Fillpot) lane, & slept in coney Court, i.e. I had milk for breakfast, Beef Steaks for dinner, got tipsey with porter at Night & slept with a Wench.

of a man, obsessed with sex.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

the female pubic hair.

1622		Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III i: Bring forth your Cunny skins, fair maids, to me, / And hold them fair that I may see / Gray, Black, and blew, for your small skins.
1637–9		‘The Jovial Pedlar’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 100: Kate brought forth her Cony-skins, from underneath the Staires, / They were as black as any Jet, and full of silver haires. [Ibid.] 101: And they would show him cunny skins, a white one and a grey.

able to ‘double one’s fist, with the thumb inwards, like a woman’ (Grose, 1785); thus cunny-thumb n.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Cunny thumb’d, to double one’s fist, with the thumb inwards, like a woman.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 78: In the ring, they are to be made up with the thumb outside, covering the first knuckle of the fore-finger, and a little more of the middle one: he who covers his thumb must not hit ― even a woolpack; he is then ‘coney-thumbed.’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 74: Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

(US) a villain, a rascal.

1978

Lyle & Golenbock Bronx Zoo 239: ’Bout time you won twenty, you cunny thumper.

1. a brothel.

1765		H. Howard Choice Spirits Museum 95: To the fam’d Coney-Warren at Lambeth repair.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: cunny warren [...] a brothel.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].

2. a girls’ boarding school.

1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: cunny warren [...] a girls boarding school.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785].

3. the vagina.

1980

Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 191: Thus the mouse goes into the mousehole, the carrot is used to tempt the cunny-warren, the kennel-raker rakes the kennel.

of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.