What? shall Philosophie[…]make me like a fearfull cunnie creepe into some lurking-hole, and like a craven to tremble and yeeld? 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
Originally a specific sense of coney (developed from its use as a pet name for a woman), reinforced by association with cunt and the suffix -y (equivalent to cunt + -y).
Meanings
(countable, diminutive, vulgar) A cunt; a vulva.
O let me alone to grope for Cunnies. 1599, H. Porter, Pleasant Historie of Two Angrie Women of Abington, page sig. H2v:
The whore stands to be bought for each mans mony,
And seekes vild wealth by selling of her Cony. a. 1593, C. Marlowe, Ovids Elegies, published c. 1602, page sig. B3:
(countable, slang, vulgar) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli). ▸ A loli; a child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive.
(metonymically, slang, uncountable, vulgar) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli). ▸ Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).
Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.' 2000, Donna Maxine Weir, Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures, page 175: