coochie

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːt͡ʃi/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃi

Noun

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) 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
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• Swedish: fiffi (sv) c

See also

• coochy coo