Coney

Coney, cony or cunny may refer to:

Places

• Coney Arm, a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Coney Beach Pleasure Park, an amusement park in Wales
• Coney's Castle, a fort in Dorset, England
• Coneygar, a suburb of Bridport, Devon, England
• Coneyhurst, a hamlet in West Sussex, England
• Coney Island (disambiguation), any of a number of islands
• Coneysthorpe, a small village in North Yorkshire, England
• Coneythorpe, a small village in North Yorkshire, England
• Coney Weston, a village in Suffolk, England

Animal

Coney ( /ˈkoʊnɪ/, historically /ˈkʌni/) is an English word for a rabbit or rabbit hair, (deriving from the Latin cuniculus, meaning "rabbit"), as well as several derived terms:

• Cuban Coney, an extinct species of rodent in the Capromyidae family. It was endemic to Cuba.
• Coney, a translation of the Hebrew Bible word שָּׁפָן (shaphan), in modern English "rock hyrax" (a rodent-like member of the order Hyracoidea)
• Coney, the common name for Cephalopholis fulva, a grouper fish
• Coney-catching, a term for confidence trick in Elizabethan English
• Coney, a representation of a rabbit in heraldry; see Charge (heraldry) and Three hares
• Coney or cony, an alternate name for pika, a rabbit-like alpine animal

Food

In the United States, coney (/ˈkoʊni/, rhymes with bony) may refer to several foods:

• Coney Island hot dog, founded in Detroit, Michigan, served at a number of restaurants in the midwestern United States
• Coney sauce, a spicy beef chili served on hot dogs
• Coney, an alternative name for a "white hot" hot dog in Central New York; see Hot dog variations

People

• Dean Coney, footballer
• Hykiem Coney, anti-gang activist
• Jeremy Coney, cricketer
• Malachy Coney, a comic writer
• Michael G. Coney, science fiction writer
• Sandra Coney, feminist and women's health campaignist
• Theodore Edward Coneys, a murderer

Ships

• USS Edgar F. Coney (SP-346), a United States Navy tug in commission from 1917 to 1919

Popular culture

• "Coney" is used instead of the word rabbit by Samwise Gamgee and the other hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, as well as in the Monster Blood Tattoo Series, by D. M. Cornish

See also

• Cuniculus (disambiguation)
• Coney Island (disambiguation)

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