coochie

English

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /ˈkuːt͡ʃi/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -uːtʃi

Noun

coochie (plural coochies)

(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
(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!
(US, slang, uncommon) Sex 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.

Derived terms

coochie cutters

Translations

vagina or vulva

Finnish: toosa (fi), tussu (fi)
French: foufoune (fr) f
German: Muschi (de) f
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: pacchiu (scn) m, sticchiu (scn) m, babbu (scn) m, picciuni m, cionna f
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: fiffi (sv) c

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “coochie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “coochie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

[OED-1] 1.0 ^1.1 “coochie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[GDoS-2] 2.0 ^2.1 “coochie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

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