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 Cityborough of Brooklyn, was named for its (former) abundance of rabbits. This explanation is disputed by some.[1]
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[2]), more accurately rendered "hyrax".
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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Coney Island was one of the world's most popular amusement parks for a century, and it still goes strong today though the twists and turns of fate have retailored her course – and sorely tested her resolve – over the years.
Cincinnati businessman Ron Walker purchased Coney Island in 1991 and, today, under the ownership of the Walker family, Coney Island once again is thriving, and Lake Como, Sunlite Pool, Moonlite Gardens and the picnic shelters are constant reminders of the great park of the past.
Coney Island is a state of mind – a feeling of relaxing and sharing with friends and family on a long summer's day, a place where grandparents can share memories with grandchildren.
Coney is a lawyer, has practiced in Topeka over thirty years, is also a vigorous writer, has been a publisher in his time, and has always made his private success subsidiary to the public welfare.
Coney has earned many large fees from wealthy clients, it is said that more than half his professional service has been rendered gratuitously to the old soldiers and the soldiers' widows in securing pensions for them and in other ways easing the burdens of existence.
Coney has traveled and read extensively, and has a well selected library of his favorite authors, is a collector of historical relics, and is a writer who lends perfect diction to an orderly train of thought and imagination.
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