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Coochie, coochee or coochi [1] is an American term often used as a cute or slang word for a vulva. It has also been used as a slang descriptor in relation to a belly dance and related types of movement.

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The term is a slang descriptor often used in relation to a belly dance or wiggling, as in "Coochie Coochie dance", "Hoochee-Coochee", and the saying "coochie coochie coo" when tickling an infant. It is also used as sexually suggestive slang in the Southern United States, referring to the vagina. [2] [3]

The slang term 'coochie', popular in the USA is likely to be derived from the German word 'Kuchen', meaning 'a pie or cake'.

It may trace back to a song performed at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair [3] by a dancer named Little Egypt, who was filmed in 1896 by Thomas Edison for the Coochee Coochee Dance film short. [4] [5] [6] The song was created by Sol Bloom. [7]

One explanation of the etymology attributes it to the French word coucher, meaning to lie down. [8]

Another possible root is the Central American and Caribbean Spanish chocha, likewise a slang term for the vulva, possibly derived from the Mexican panocha, yet another slang term for the vulva, in metaphoric transference from the cones of brown sugar sold in Mexican markets.

After the sexually provocative dance became wildly popular during and after the World's Fair, the term "hoochie coochie man" came to refer to someone who either watched the performer(s) or ran the show. Alternatively, from the directly sexual meaning of "hoochie coochie", the term referred to someone who greatly enjoyed sexual intercourse. The erotic dancing was popular in film booths and was a precursor of the striptease. [9]

In music

Various folk and popular songs including the term have been recorded, including an Alabama folk song, [10] "Coochi Coochi Coo" by Ella Fitzgerald, [11] the song "Coochie Coo", and 2 Live Crew's "Pop That Coochie".

In literature

In the 1996 play The Vagina Monologues , "coochi", as in "my coochi snorcher", is one of the slang terms for the vagina. [1] [12] [13] The form "coochi" is derived from the more common "coochie" of the early 1990s. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Victor, Terry and Dalzell, Tom (2007) The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p.160
  2. ↑ coochie at onlineslangdictionary.com
  3. 1 2 coochie at LLC's Dictionary.com
  4. ↑ "Venus - Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance". www.venusbellydance.com. Archived from the original on 2002-04-11.
  5. ↑ "MoMA | The Collection | James White, William Heise. Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance. 1986". moma.org. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  6. ↑ "Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance (1896) - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  7. ↑ Hanania, R. (2005). Arabs of Chicagoland. Arcadia. p. 10. ISBN   9780738534176 . Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  8. ↑ Sonny Watson. "Hootchy-Cootchy Dance - aka Dance du ventre, Hoochi Koochi, Risque - Fatima, Little Egypt". streetswing.com. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  9. ↑ Stencell, A.W. (1999). Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind. ECW Press. p. 7. ISBN   9781550223712 . Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  10. ↑ Browne, R.B. (1979). The Alabama Folk Lyric: A Study in Origins and Media of Dissemination. Bowling Green University Popular Press. p. 220. ISBN   9780879721299 . Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  11. ↑ "Ella Fitzgerald Lyrics: Coochi-Coochi-Coo Lyrics - HotLyrics.net". Archived from the original on 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
  12. ↑ Eve Ensler (1996) The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition, pp.11, 76-82, 153-4, 180
  13. ↑ Ultramontane Associates (1999) Culture Wars, Volume 19, p.94
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