Definitions for conies

conies co·ny

Spelling: [koh-nee, kuhn-ee]
IPA: /ˈkoʊ ni, ˈkʌn i/

Conies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in conies (ceinos).

Definitions for conies

noun

  1. the fur of a rabbit, especially 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.

Origin of conies

1150-1200; Middle English, back formation from conyes Old French conis, plural of conil Latin cunīculus rabbit, burrow, a word said to be of Iberian orig., according with evidence that the ra

Examples for conies

We will show these conies of Cynwyl that we are not afraid of them.

Varro speaketh of a towne in Spaine that was ouerthrowne by conies.

My grandfather can call to mind the time when only the conies lived upon this rock.

I said, 'Why, there's some poacher fellow popping at the conies!'

Everywhere among the bowlders were whistling rock-rabbits, or conies.

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks.

We must be wise as the conies, and build our nest in the cleft of the Rock of Ages.

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

After all, what you say only conies to this, that you are interested in the problem of human life.

As I looked about me I could not see grass enough to feed a pair of conies for a winter.

Word Value for conies
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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