Cory vs Cowry - What's the difference?
cory | cowry |
transferred from the surname.
* 2005 Robert L. Fried, The Game of School , Jossey-bass, ISBN 0787973475, page 42:
(less common than the male name) transferred from the surname, also a pet form of Cora, Corinne and similar sounding names.
* 1991 Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia in the New International Era , Westview Press, ISBN 0813311799, page 58:
* 1998 Robyn Amos, Into the Night , ISBN 0786005599, page 61:
Any of the marine molluscs of the genus Cypraea .
The money cowry, .
As nouns the difference between cory and cowry
is that cory is any fish belonging to the genus , a group of south american freshwater catfish while cowry is any of the marine molluscs of the genus cypraea .cory
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Alternative forms
* Corey * Cori, Kori, Korey, KoryProper noun
(en proper noun)- On another poster are the names of the new class — unusual names (at least to me) like Wen Qi, Elijah, Yoav, Noni, Koray, Cai Ying and Julissa, along with more common names like Cory , Betty, Tammy, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Andrew.
- Corazon "Cory " Aquino, the widow of the martyred Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., emerged as the person around whom all the oppositionists could coalesce.
- I went to high school with a girl named Corrine, though, and everyone called her Cory —
