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The Oxford English Dictionary charts the usage, including one line from a popular 1622 play co-written by a contemporary of Shakespeare: “ … they cry like poulterers’ wives, ‘no money, no cony.’

She cranks up the radio when it conies on.”

From foes the conies shelter in the rocks.

Anyone in the Settlement that hears the ringing quits doing whatever they’re doing and conies to the schoolhouse to welcome the new people.

The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole.