"coney" [cunny?] = "vulva", 1663 antedates 1720

[Jonathan Lighter]

Joel, the proverb is already so interpreted in HDAS, s.v. _cunny_.

  JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>From 1663: "He told me also there was the channels in the womb of
the woman, that lay in the folds, & that rubbing of them made it
delightfull to Her, & a H___y [illegible] Bone that lyes a little
above the coney & it parts the first time a man lyes with her, & that
makes it painfull to her till her body be opened & that it also parts
at her labor.

I take this to be "cunny" = "cunt", for which it antedates OED2
1720-. But it also may bear on the etymology, where OED2 says for
"cunny" "Prob. dim. of cunt; but cf. cony [/coney] n. 5b." One might
wonder whether the quotation s.v. cony, coney n. 5b. of "1622
Massinger Virg. Mart. ii. i, A pox on your Christian cockatrices!
They cry, like poulterers' wives, 'No money, no coney'." should be
given a more sexual meaning. (OED2 does not have a sense for "coney"
= "sexual organs".)

Joel

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