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Meanings of coney in English

Portuguese
coelho
Catalan
conill
Spanish
conejo
Wikidata

Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.

        coelho

        Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.

              Black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins.

                    Usage of coney in English
                    1
                    The moorfowl does not cry there, the coney has no habitation.
                    John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars...
                    2
                    A faint cry, like the low scream of a terrified coney, escaped her.
                    The Mark of the Beast
                    3
                    Then said he, 'Thy kaze, thy tout, thy catso, thy coney.'
                    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
                    4
                    There's some left, if you want to try stewed coney.' There was no answer.
                    The two towers
                    5
                    We shall have it like a coney in a trap.
                    The two towers
                    6
                    He picked up a stone, and watched if perchance a coney might show itself.
                    The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
                    7
                    But it was no coney Yhakobin was tormenting up there; it was the pale creature.
                    Shadows Return
                    8
                    He passed Ilar his portion of the coney liver.
                    Shadows Return
                    9
                    Our bread chokes you, and raw coney chokes me.
                    The two towers
                    10
                    What damned cozening, gulling, and coney-catching have we here!
                    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
                    11
                    Thou hare, camel, coney, night-hawk, raven, lobster, earwig, hog!
                    Earl Hubert's Daughter / The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of ...
                    12
                    After all, that which was shown us was only the ill-faced countenance of a roasted coney.
                    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
                    13
                    Bolted like a coney to the hills.
                    The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
                    14
                    If you give me a coney, the coney's mine, see, to cook, if I have a mind.
                    The two towers
                    15
                    This coney lives in chinks and holes of rocks: it was never seen by me on the plains.
                    First Footsteps in East Africa
                    16
                    A coney is a rabbit pelt.
                    The Irish Times
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                    Translations for coney
                    Portuguese
                    coelholebre
                    Coney through the time