Connie vs Cony - What's the difference?
connie | cony |
A diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of .
(aviation, informal) The airliner.
English diminutives of female given names
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A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as ).
(UK, dialect) Rabbit fur.
Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew ลก?p?n'' (''shaapaan'', ''shaphan''), thought to be the rock hyrax ''Hyrax syriacus .
Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika ((taxlink), formerly Lagomys princeps ).
(obsolete) A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
* 1599 , Diet's Dry Dinner :
An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: , the hind of Bermuda; (taxlink); (taxlink).
Several species of tropical west Atlantic groupers of family Epinephelidae are also called coney , such as the mutton hamlet, graysby, Cuban coney and rooster hind.
(UK, dialect) The burbot, also called coney-fish.
As nouns the difference between connie and cony
is that connie is (rabbit) while cony is a rabbit, especially the european rabbit, oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as ).connie
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)cony
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Alternative forms
* (rabbit) coney, cunny, connieNoun
(conies)- It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony'' and ''cony catcher .
Synonyms
* (rabbit) bunny, hareAnagrams
*References
* * *The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (catlangcode) ----
