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.

• the name of an original dish created in Cincinnati. Since the food is normally served with cheese it is generally called a cheese coney.

• 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 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.

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