coony
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of coony
Example Sentences
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“It feels like there’s an entire season where Californians call each other and say, ‘If you have to evacuate, I have a guest room,’ which is crazy, but totally normal,” said Lindsay Coony from Santa Barbara.
From Los Angeles Times
The show, of course, is slick, exciting, professional in every detail�trust coony old Kazan for that every time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The squirrel spree forgotten, sugar was back at its humdrum ways: an industry of chronic depression, divided into a number of tough and coony political pressure groups.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The chase was not a long one, for in a few seconds the steady barking of the dogs told us that poor ‘coony’ was ‘treed.’
From Project Gutenberg
It would not, were he a hardened sinner; but Blue Bill is the very reverse; and though, at times, cruel to “coony,” he is, in the main, merciful, his breast overflowing with the milk of human kindness.
From Project Gutenberg
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