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Coney
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Coney may be:
- an English word for a rabbit, or rabbit's hair. Originally it was pronounced in a way that rhymed with money and honey. Later its pronunciation changed to /kəʊ.niː/ to disambiguate it from its homophone, a slang term for the female genitals (usually spelled cunny when used with this meaning).
- In Elizabethan English the phrase "Coney catching" referred to confidence tricks, as in Robert Greene's The Art of Coney Catching.
- It has long been accepted that Coney Island, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was named for its (former) abundance of rabbits.
- Coney Island, off Sligo in Ireland, perhaps takes its name from coinín, the Irish word for rabbit.
- Another name for both hyraxes (a subungulate, one of the paenungulata) and pikas (related to rabbits).
- The word coney (i.e., "rabbit") has been used to translate the Hebrew Bible word שָּׁפָן (shaphan), more accurately rendered "hyrax".
- the common name for a Caribbean fish, Cephalopholis fulva, in the genus Serranidae, subgenus Epinephelinae.
- the name of an original dish created in Cincinnati. Since the food is normally served with cheese it is generally called a cheese coney.
- a type of hot dog served at one of the Detroit-based "Coney Island" restaurants.
- Coney Sauce a spicy beef "chili" served on hot dogs. In Ohio many places have "coneys" on the menu; you would get a hot dog and Coney Sauce.
- Coney Island hot dog - a hot dog style served in the Michigan based Coney Island restaurants which uses Coney sauce, that is similar to the Michigan hot dog, and may be considered a type of chili dog.
- an alternative name for a white hot hot dog, sold in Central New York, which has a white color, is spicy, and whose meat sometimes includes veal as well as pork.
- Michael G. Coney, a British science fiction writer who spent his final years in Canada.
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