c. 1200, from Anglo-French conis, plural of conil "long-eared rabbit" (Lepus cunicula) from Latin cuniculus (source of Spanish conejo, Portuguese coelho, Italian coniglio), the small, Spanish variant of the Italian hare (Latin lepus), the word perhaps from Iberian Celtic (classical writers say it is Spanish).
Rabbit arose 14c. to mean the young of the species, but gradually pushed out the older word 19c., after British slang picked up coney as a punning synonym for cunny "cunt" (compare connyfogle "to deceive in order to win a woman's sexual favors"). The word was in the King James Bible [Prov. xxx:26, etc.], however, so it couldn't be entirely dropped, and the solution was to change the pronunciation of the original short vowel (rhyming with honey, money) to rhyme with boney. In the Old Testament, the word translates Hebrew shaphan "rock-badger." Rabbits not being native to northern Europe, there was no Germanic or Celtic word for them.
雙語例句
1. Let's go to Coney Island, old sport.
咱倆到康尼島去玩吧, 老兄.
來自英漢文學(xué) - 蓋茨比
2. Renate was greatly annoyed when I said that she must come to Coney Island with me.
當(dāng)我向萊娜達(dá)提出她必須陪我走一趟科尼島時(shí),她大為惱火.
來自辭典例句
3. I'm sorry ? - You got IsIand Towers , I got Coney IsIand.
什么 ? - 你拿到了你的項(xiàng)目, 我挽救了社區(qū)中心.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. I'm here representing the Coney IsIand Community Center. It was buiIt in 1922.
我此行的目的代表科尼島社區(qū)活動(dòng)中心, 它建于1922年.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Coney Island: It is a historic beach and famous amusement park.