coochie

noun

coo·​chie ˈkü-chē 

plural coochies

vulgar, slang

: the female genital organs

also : sexual intercourse with a woman

Word History

Etymology

of uncertain origin

Note: Phonetically similar are earlier coozie and cooze in the senses "attractive/promiscuous woman," "female genitals." The word coochie, with many variant spellings, is also used as a shortening of hoochie-coochie, hootchy-kootchy, etc., "a dance performed by women marked by a sinuous and often suggestive twisting and shaking of the torso and limbs." The history of the expression and the dance are recounted in Peter Jensen Brown, "The 'Kouta-Kouta' and the 'Coochie-Coochie' - a History and Etymology of the 'Hoochie Coochie' Dance," Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog (https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-kouta-kouta-and-coochie-coochie.html). The compound appears to occur earliest as nonsense syllables in the refrain of the minstrel-show song "The Ham Fat Man" ("A hoochee, koochee, koochee says the ham fat man"), published in Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 10 (New York, 1863).

First Known Use

circa 1985, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing coochie

• coochie cutters