coochie

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly a clipping of hootchy-kootchy.[1] Alternatively, possibly from cunt with influence from American slang term cookie (“vulva”).[2] References to coochee dance (with various spellings) are attested from the end of the 19th century.[1] The sense of “vagina or vulva” is attested from the early 20th century.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuːt͡ʃi/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːtʃi

Noun[edit]

coochie (plural coochies)

  1. (US, obsolete) The hootchy-kootchy, a type of erotic dance.
    • 1899 January, “New Films for ‘Screen’ Machines”, in The Phonoscope‎[1], page 15:
      LITTLE EGYPT IN COOCHEE COOCHEE DANCE. A vision of gauze, lace and spangles, performing the famous danse-du-ventre
  2. (US, slang) The vagina or vulva.
    • 1937, Cab Calloway (lyrics and music), “My Gal Mezzanine”:
      She’s the red hot mama from Bahama with the red hot cootchie-coo!
      You get sweet infection in the deep hot section,
      When that gal looks at you!
  3. (US, slang, uncommon) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
    • 1999, Timmothy McCann, Until‎[2], page 134:
      That fat sum bitch don’t even get coochie, yet he trust to tell me what to do with mine? Please.

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “coochie, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jonathon Green (2024) “coochie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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