Coy vs Cony - What's the difference?
coy | cony |
(dated) Bashful, shy, retiring.
(archaic) Quiet, reserved, modest.
Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
Soft, gentle, hesitating.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To caress, pet; to coax, entice.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To calm or soothe.
To allure; to decoy.
* Bishop Rainbow
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 coy and cony
is that coy is a trap from which waterfowl may be hunted while cony is a rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as species: Lepus cuniculus).As an adjective coy
is bashful, shy, retiring.As a verb coy
is to caress, pet; to coax, entice.coy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) coi, earlier .Adjective
(er)- Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
Derived terms
* coyly * coynessVerb
(en verb)- Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy .
- A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets.
Etymology 2
Compare decoy.References
* [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=coy&searchmode=none]cony
English
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) ----