α. see coney n.1 and burrow n.1
β. see coney n.1 and berry n.3
单词 | coney burrow |
释义 | coney burrown.α. see coney n.1 and burrow n.1 β. see coney n.1 and berry n.3 Now regional or historical. 1. A rabbit burrow. Also; a number of these together, a rabbit warren.For earlier place-name evidence see etymology. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren clapperc1400 cunnigar1424 warrena1425 coneygarth1429 coney-close?1472 coney hole?c1475 berry1486 coney holda1500 coney-clapper1530 coney yard1532 coneyry1570 coney burrow1575 coney gratec1580 coney-gat1591 coney green1599 coney warren1616 coney ground1617 rabbit hole1667 stop1669 rabbit burrow1723 stock1736 rabbit warren1766 stab1838 warrener1864 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxvii. 188 They do much hurt in Warrens and coney burrowes. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) iii. 46 A crannye as bygg as a conye borrowe. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vii. 212 Calling..the places made for conies to hyde and shrowd themselues in, Conie-veries or Conie-buries, & in other partes of England Conie-burrowes. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xvi. 109 About the heads of Conney-Berries. a1679 T. Hobbes Dialogue Common-laws Eng. 205 in Art of Rhetoric (1681) The place [sc. Old Sarum] looketh so like a long Cony-Borough. 1718 G. Jacob Compl. Sportsman ii. 73 If a Man makes Coney-burrows in his own Land, and they multiply there, his Neighbour may not have Action on the Case against him. 1830 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 157 The Rabbit..is generally bred and preserved..in large inclosures of sandy ground, called Coney-boroughs. 1982 D. Pope Admiral i. 8 ‘Watch out for your ankles,’ Ned said, gesturing at the holes which pocked the beach like small coney burrows. 2001 Yale Law Rev. 111 371 The keeper of coney-burrows. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xiii. sig. Qq1v Swearing..that the wals should not keepe the coward from him, but he would fetch him out of his connie-berrie. a1652 R. Brome City Wit v. sig. G2, in Five New Playes (1653) Can he not..read Cupids Conybery, the Park of pleasure, Christian Love-Letters, or some other Pamphlet? 1897 St. Nicholas Aug. 813/1 Here, Ned, give him this shilling, and tell him to be off to his cony-burrow as fast as his legs can trot. b. derogatory. A place in which prostitutes are housed; a brothel. rare (now historical).Only with reference to the hostile reaction to the permission given to Pietro Martire Vermigli, or ‘Peter Martyr’ (1499–1562), first canon of Christ Church, Oxford, to live with his wife in college. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1691 A. Wood P. Martyr in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 107 The R. Catholicks..usually stiled them Concubines, and the Lodgings that entertained them and their Children Stews and Cony-buries. 1984 16th Cent. Jrnl. 15 93 Both town and gown combined to break his windows looking on to Fish Street and to shout insults about ‘concubines’ and ‘coney-burrows’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > vagina coney burrow1615 vagina1721 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 155 Till then adew: for till that time I sweare it, Thy Connie-burrow is not for my Ferret. 1640 T. Rawlins Rebellion iv. i. sig. Gv Faith Master if you cann't, here's them that can ferrit in a Cunny burrow without a provocative, Ile warrant you. ?1661 W. N. et al. Merry Drollery: 1st Pt. 52 My Mistris is a Conny fine, She's of the softest skin, And if you please to open her, The best part lies within, And in her Conny-burrow may Two Tumblers and a Ferret play. 1717 E. Ward Humours of Coffee-house in Misc. Writings (ed. 3) II. 284 The Damnd'st Distemper that ever crept into the Cunneborough of Copulation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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