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), while the word for rabbit was consonant-shifted to "bunny" (the same process that produces the minced oath "gosh" from "god").
• In Elizabethan English the phrase "Coney catching" referred to confidence tricks, as in Robert Greene's The Art of Coney Catching.
• It has been popularly supposed that Coney Island, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was named for its (former) abundance of rabbits. This explanation is disputed, however.[1]
• 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".
• the common name for a Caribbean fish, Cephalopholis fulva, in the genus Serranidae, subgenus Epinephelinae.

• 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 originated on Coney Island, and also 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

• Michael G. Coney, a British science fiction writer who spent his final years in Canada.