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cooze en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kuːz/

Etymology

Uncertain, but compare Danish kusse (“vagina”), Persian کس (kos, “vagina”), vernacular Arabic كُس (kus, “vagina”), and Northern Kurdish qûz (“vagina”). The term may have been introduced to the United States after the Second World War by servicemen who fought in north Africa, but it already existed as a slang term in the blues community as early as 1929.

Meanings

1. (slang, vulgar) Pussy, vagina.
   • We kissed a lot, for as long as an hour sometimes, standing in the hall of her dorm, the endless slow tongue friction, the sweet smell of her, my sobbing hard-on moist in my tight undies, her cooze surely sopping. 1991, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, All the Visions:
   • The thing is, her cooze was real cute and everything but it stank! 2006, National Lampoon Magazine Rack:
   • "It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze," Don Hagarty said. 1987, Stephen King, It:
2. (derogatory, slang) A woman (often when viewed as an object of sexual desire).
   • I write this beautiful fuckin' letter, I slave over it, and what happens? The dumb cooze never writes back. 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:
   • Okay, the Sherbourne cooze was a bilingual stewardess. 2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover:
   • I went out and looked around / Somebody yelled: "There's a cooze in town!" 1929, Blind Blake, Diddie Wa Diddie:

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