coozen.¹

Brit.

/kuːz/, U.S.

/kuz/

Forms: 1800s cousse, 1900s couse, 1900s– cooze.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cooze v.

Etymology: < cooze v. Compare coosy n., and perhaps also Manx English coosh chat (20th cent.).

English regional (southern and south-western, esp. Cornwall). Now rare.

A chat, a gossip. Cf. cooze v. 2.In quot. 1990 in a work of historical fiction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat

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wongi1929

yap1930

kibitz1931

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old talk1956

jaw-jaw1958

yacking1959

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rapping1967

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip

jowl?c1225

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tattle1583

clatter1596

street web1614

town talk1642

street-threada1661

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fetch-fire1784

street yarn1800

gossip1811

village gossip1847

Russian scandal1861

chopsing1879

cooze1880

reportage1881

skeet1900

scuttlebutt gossip1901

pussy-talk1937

mauvais languec1945

comess1970

he-say-she-say1972

gyaff1975

skinder1979

goss1985

gist1990

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Cousse, a chat, a gossip. ‘We had a bra' comfor'ble cousse.’

1902 Academy 11 Jan. 676/2 A couse is a gossip in the Cornish vernacular.

1990 M. Ross Woman Alone iii. 18 'Twas only a bit of old cooze, like I said.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coozen.²

Brit.

/kuːz/, U.S.

/kuz/

Forms: 1900s– cooze, 1900s– cuze, 1900s– kooze.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: coozie n.

Etymology: Probably shortened < coozie n. Perhaps compare cooch n.

North American slang.

1. A woman, esp. one who is sexually attractive or promiscuous. Also as a general term of contempt for a woman (cf. cunt n. 2a).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

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1955 B. Schulberg Waterfront 94 The neighborhood's favorite teen-age cooze, a jazzed-up kitten still fleshy with baby fat.

1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 27 What's your damage? Brad says you're being a real cooze.

1995 G. Burn Fullalove v. 180 The buyer was..part of a big group of bikers and their coozes.

1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 318 You dyke, you bitch, cooze, cunt, slut, gash.

2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand cv. 597 What's her name? That cooze with the go-go boots.

2. The female genitals. Also (as a mass noun): sexual intercourse with a woman.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun]

cuntc1230

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coozea1968

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pum-pum1983

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punani1987

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va-jay-jay2000

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > specifically with a woman

womenOE

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coozea1968

stank1980

coochie1986

a1968 W. W. Smith in P. Smith Let. from my Father (1976) 136 As I touched her cuze, she..kissed me.

1989 T. Berger Changing Past ii. 82 He did not want for cooze: women liked men who made them laugh.

1990 M. Torgov St. Farb's Day ii. 136 Good ol' Dave was into booze and cooze a lot in those days and showed up at trial pissed to the gills after a weekend in Niagara Falls with some bimbo.

2002 E. Hunter Moment she was Gone vii. 189 How about the radio transmitter in her cooze? Is that routine, too?

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coozev.

Brit.

/kuːz/, U.S.

/kuz/

Forms:

α. 1800s cose, 1800s course, 1800s coze.

β. 1800s coose, 1800s cousse, 1800s coussy, 1800s cowse, 1800s– cooze.

Origin: A borrowing from Cornish. Etymon: Cornish cows

Etymology: Probably < Cornish cows (verbal noun) action of talking (already in Middle Cornish), of uncertain origin, perhaps ultimately related to French causer , although the relevant sense ‘to chat, to gossip’ is later in French (16th cent.: see causerie n.). Compare also Breton kaoz (1499 in Middle Breton as caus), although the exact relationship between the French, Cornish, and Breton words is uncertain.

English regional (south-western, esp. Cornwall).

†1. intransitive. To loiter aimlessly, to idle. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1810 [implied in: Monthly Mag. June 432/2 Cozing, or coozing, loitering, soaking. C[ornwall].].

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Coussy,..to loiter on an errand.

2. intransitive. To chat, to gossip. Now rare.In quot. 1990 in a work of historical fiction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat

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confablec1450

crack1529

tattle1547

chat1551

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confab1741

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parleyvoo1765

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yarn1819

cosher1833

to pass a good morning1835

small-talk1848

mardle1853

cooze1870

chinwag1879

rap1909

kibitz1923

to shoot the breeze1941

old-talk1956

ole-talk1971

gyaff1976

gist1992

the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > gossip

talea1225

talk1461

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gammer1788

chit-chat1821

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nipper1840

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cooze1870

chopse1879

skinder1942

scuttlebutt1945

to talk trash1947

gyaff1976

gist1992

tongue-wag-

1870 F. E. M. Notley Patience Caerhydon I. vi. 113 She herself was a betwatled ould timnoodle for coozing with sich a drumble-drane.

a1894 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) 22 Don't stand coozing there.

1990 M. Ross Woman Alone iii. 18 We was gathering blackberries out Trequean way. And we was coozing on about this and that.

Derivatives

ˈcoozing n.

ΚΠ

1810 Monthly Mag. June 432/2 Cozing, or coozing, loitering, soaking. C[ornwall].

2018 Cornish Dial. Words in www.oldcornwall.net (accessed 25 Feb. 2019) Coozing, idle gossip. Wasting time chatting.

ˈcoozer n. a talkative person, a gossip.

ΚΠ

a1819 J. Curry in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 724/2 Cousser, a gossip, talkative person.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Cousser, a gossiper. ‘She's a regular cousser’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1880

n.²1955

v.1810

单词	cooze
释义	coozen.¹ Brit. /kuːz/, U.S. /kuz/ Forms: 1800s cousse, 1900s couse, 1900s– cooze. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cooze v. Etymology: < cooze v. Compare coosy n., and perhaps also Manx English coosh chat (20th cent.). English regional (southern and south-western, esp. Cornwall). Now rare. A chat, a gossip. Cf. cooze v. 2.In quot. 1990 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat confabulationc1450 device1490 chat1573 tittle-tattle?c1640 small talk1650 confab1701 chit-chat1710 jaw1748 small-talking1786 prose1787 rap1787 coze1804 talky-talky1812 clack1813 chit-chatting1823 cozey1837 gossip1849 mardlea1852 yarn1857 conflab1873 chinwag1879 chopsing1879 cooze1880 chatting1884 schmoozing1884 talky-talk1884 pitch1888 schmooze1895 coosy1903 wongi1929 yap1930 kibitz1931 natter1943 old talk1956 jaw-jaw1958 yacking1959 ole talk1964 rapping1967 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip jowl?c1225 trattle1513 tittle-tattle1570 tattle1583 clatter1596 street web1614 town talk1642 street-threada1661 clash1685 fetch-fire1784 street yarn1800 gossip1811 village gossip1847 Russian scandal1861 chopsing1879 cooze1880 reportage1881 skeet1900 scuttlebutt gossip1901 pussy-talk1937 mauvais languec1945 comess1970 he-say-she-say1972 gyaff1975 skinder1979 goss1985 gist1990 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Cousse, a chat, a gossip. ‘We had a bra' comfor'ble cousse.’ 1902 Academy 11 Jan. 676/2 A couse is a gossip in the Cornish vernacular. 1990 M. Ross Woman Alone iii. 18 'Twas only a bit of old cooze, like I said. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coozen.² Brit. /kuːz/, U.S. /kuz/ Forms: 1900s– cooze, 1900s– cuze, 1900s– kooze. Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: coozie n. Etymology: Probably shortened < coozie n. Perhaps compare cooch n. North American slang. 1. A woman, esp. one who is sexually attractive or promiscuous. Also as a general term of contempt for a woman (cf. cunt n. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1955 B. Schulberg Waterfront 94 The neighborhood's favorite teen-age cooze, a jazzed-up kitten still fleshy with baby fat. 1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 27 What's your damage? Brad says you're being a real cooze. 1995 G. Burn Fullalove v. 180 The buyer was..part of a big group of bikers and their coozes. 1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 318 You dyke, you bitch, cooze, cunt, slut, gash. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand cv. 597 What's her name? That cooze with the go-go boots. 2. The female genitals. Also (as a mass noun): sexual intercourse with a woman. 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W. Smith in P. Smith Let. from my Father (1976) 136 As I touched her cuze, she..kissed me. 1989 T. Berger Changing Past ii. 82 He did not want for cooze: women liked men who made them laugh. 1990 M. Torgov St. Farb's Day ii. 136 Good ol' Dave was into booze and cooze a lot in those days and showed up at trial pissed to the gills after a weekend in Niagara Falls with some bimbo. 2002 E. Hunter Moment she was Gone vii. 189 How about the radio transmitter in her cooze? Is that routine, too? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coozev. Brit. /kuːz/, U.S. /kuz/ Forms: α. 1800s cose, 1800s course, 1800s coze. β. 1800s coose, 1800s cousse, 1800s coussy, 1800s cowse, 1800s– cooze. Origin: A borrowing from Cornish. Etymon: Cornish cows Etymology: Probably < Cornish cows (verbal noun) action of talking (already in Middle Cornish), of uncertain origin, perhaps ultimately related to French causer , although the relevant sense ‘to chat, to gossip’ is later in French (16th cent.: see causerie n.). Compare also Breton kaoz (1499 in Middle Breton as caus), although the exact relationship between the French, Cornish, and Breton words is uncertain. English regional (south-western, esp. Cornwall). †1. intransitive. To loiter aimlessly, to idle. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1810 [implied in: Monthly Mag. June 432/2 Cozing, or coozing, loitering, soaking. C[ornwall].]. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Coussy,..to loiter on an errand. 2. intransitive. To chat, to gossip. Now rare.In quot. 1990 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat dallyc1300 confablec1450 crack1529 tattle1547 chat1551 confabulate1604 confab1741 prosea1764 parleyvoo1765 coze1818 yarn1819 cosher1833 to pass a good morning1835 small-talk1848 mardle1853 cooze1870 chinwag1879 rap1909 kibitz1923 to shoot the breeze1941 old-talk1956 ole-talk1971 gyaff1976 gist1992 the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > gossip talea1225 talk1461 twittle1551 tattle1581 clasha1689 fetch-and-carry1770 gammer1788 chit-chat1821 rumour1832 nipper1840 coffee-house1861 cooze1870 chopse1879 skinder1942 scuttlebutt1945 to talk trash1947 gyaff1976 gist1992 tongue-wag- 1870 F. E. M. Notley Patience Caerhydon I. vi. 113 She herself was a betwatled ould timnoodle for coozing with sich a drumble-drane. a1894 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) 22 Don't stand coozing there. 1990 M. Ross Woman Alone iii. 18 We was gathering blackberries out Trequean way. And we was coozing on about this and that. Derivatives ˈcoozing n. ΚΠ 1810 Monthly Mag. June 432/2 Cozing, or coozing, loitering, soaking. C[ornwall]. 2018 Cornish Dial. Words in www.oldcornwall.net (accessed 25 Feb. 2019) Coozing, idle gossip. Wasting time chatting. ˈcoozer n. a talkative person, a gossip. ΚΠ a1819 J. Curry in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 724/2 Cousser, a gossip, talkative person. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Cousser, a gossiper. ‘She's a regular cousser’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1880n.²1955v.1810
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coozen.1

coozen.2

coozev.

Derivatives

coozen.¹

coozen.²