Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina.

c.1925		in P. Smith Letter from My Father (1978) 236: I touched her cuze.
c.1927		in P. Smith Letter from My Father (1978) 195: I felt her hot wet coozie.
1933		J.T. Farrell Gas-House McGinty 266: You’re Francis, the one and only original coose man. Before Adam laid bricks with Eve, you was.
1934		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana II 120: It serves to stuff coozies, / A hard pseudo-tool.
1941		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 225: There was a young lady of Grotton / Had to plug up her coosie with cotton.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 9: cooze (n.): [...] vagina.
1965		F. Pollini Glover 55: Susie, you are my doozie. Lay here and pet my toozie. Oh ho, you are some coozie.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 95: I might have landed my face in your cooze.
1978		‘Joe Block’ The Flasher n.p.: Janet felt the heat of the beating penetrating the walls of her coosy.
1979		Maledicta III:2 231: He also may or may not know the following words and expressions: [...] cinnamon stick (feces-stained penis, after coitus), coozey, cornhole (verb), up the crack, cut.
1986		S. King It (1987) 40: It’s a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze.
1990		R. Campbell Sweet La-La Land (1999) 78: ‘You can’t tell me you’re not cold.’ ‘Only when the wind goes whistling up their cooze,’ Hogan said.
2000		J. Baker Chinese Girl (2001) 182: While you’re parading your fucking cooz in front of some English guy.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 35: The evil snatch-salami thrashed around in his leathers like a great-white, hungry for cooze.
2012		T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 114: Terry, we’ve got a good day ahead of us [...] Tight cooze and big coin.

2. (also couse) a girl or woman (usu. promiscuous or unattractive); by ext. a prostitute (e.g. cit. 1921).

1921		Dos Passos Three Soldiers 15: ‘It’s hell sayin’ good-by to girls,’ said Powers, understandingly. ‘Cuts a feller all up. I guess it’s better to go with coosies. Ye don’t have to say good-by to them.’.
1934		H. Roth Call It Sleep (1977) 409: Say, listen O’Toole dere’s a couple o’ coozies in de back.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 49/1: Coozey. (Collectively) Loose women; prostitutes.
1955		B. Schulberg On the Waterfront (1964) 96: Melva, the neighbourhood’s favourite teenage cooze.
1957		F. Kohner Gidget (2001) 15: Who’s that fine looking coozie?
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 263: Wanta get yo’ ashes hauled? He got coozee on call.
1970		E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 549: He got ’im some little spic couse down by the river.
1970		T. Southern Blue Movie (1974) 36: The arrangement [...] was that Sid would lay starlet cooze on the maître d’.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 320: He really did, now, once and for all, want to fuck a lady, get it over with, be able to boast i have fucked cooze.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 203: You southern coozes, you don’t think it’s food if it ain’t fried, do you?
1997		T. Fontana ‘Capital P’ Oz ser. 1 ep. 4 [TV script] Women were excluded. Supreme fucking Couirt forced the Bohemian to let the coozes in. Can you believe that fucking shit?
1998		Bazarov A Rube’s Story 🌐 Mos’ fellers jes’ don’t lust after the ol’ women the way they does after the young cooze.
2000		C. Cook Robbers (2001) 330: What you say, hoss? Was that the cowboy’s cooze?
2007		C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 151: Those lovely coozes just dropped by.
2010		L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] Dick Moby honked to hurry the dumb cooze.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 239: [A] smoke screen for you to exercise your penchant for underage cooze.

3. (also kuse) a term of abuse, i.e. a cunt n. (5)

1948		J.L. Riordan ‘A.V.G. Lingo’ in AS XXIII:1 30: Life among our little brown brothers — who were sometimes less affectionately referred to as slopies, coosies, or flange-heads — was much different from that among the Wogs in India.
1989		D. Waters Heathers [film script] What’s your damage? Brad says you’re being a real kuse.

4. a passive/effeminate homosexual.

1950

Goldin et al. DAUL 49/1: Coozey. (Collectively) [...] passive pederasts, or oral sodomists.

5. (US gay) a lesbian.

1965

Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 9: cooze (n.): Lesbian.

6. a term of address to a sexually exciting woman.

1986

L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 13: Come awn, Coozie, why don’t y’all sit awn my face.

7. vaginal secretions.

1981		H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 154: Corelli checked the couch [...] Nothing but a lot of slime. Her mother would be sitting on cooze for the next few weeks.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 25: Her cunt was lubed up beyond anything she’d ever dreamed possible, the wet cooze pulsing in rivers down her young thighs.

8. sexual intercourse with a woman.

1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 50: Day in, day out, goldtoothed pachooks ascratching on [the] screen door hissing how they do for cooz.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 34: The pilot guy and the French guy want some cooze.
2008		D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 108: Hoyt said it had been his experience as he traveled the road of life that friendship tended to get in the way of cooze.

9. attrib. use of sense 8.

1968

K. Brasselle Cannibals 78: You’re a cooze-miser [...] If I waited for you to get me laid, I’d have gray hair and a snowy beard. [Ibid.] 125: Hell, why couldn’t Joey Bertell organize a coozie network from coast to coast?