Definitions for Cony

Cony co·ny

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

Cony is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Cony (cnoy).

Definitions for Cony

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 Cony

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 Cony

About all the cony has to do is to find the den and take possession.

But he clung to the cony and dragged it out of reach beneath a boulder.

In such heights man is of no more value than the wolf or the cony.

The weasel is the most persistent and effective enemy of the cony.

The result was very effectual as regarded the cony, but it was not much to gurr about in the way of breakfast.

The cony appears something of a traveller, something of an explorer.

The cony of the Bible is the little hyrax, a relative of the elephant.

The cony is found over a belt that extends from this altitude down to 9,500.

The American cony lives on top of the world—on the crest of the continent.

The cony is a relative of the rabbit, the squirrel, the beaver, and the prairie dog.

Word Value for Cony
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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