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''Coochie'', ''coochee'' or ''coochi'' 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.


In dance and related uses

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. 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 The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...
''coochie''
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by a dancer named Little Egypt, who was filmed in 1896 by Thomas Edison for the '' Coochee Coochee Dance'' film short. The song was created by Sol Bloom. One explanation of the etymology attributes it to the French word ''coucher'', meaning to lie down. 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
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In music

Various folk and popular songs including the term have been recorded, including an Alabama folk song, " Coochi Coochi Coo" by Ella Fitzgerald, the song " Coochie Coo", and
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In literature

In the 1996 play ''
The Vagina Monologues'', "coochi", as in "my coochi snorcher", is one of the slang terms for the vagina.Victor, Terry and Dalzell, Tom (2007) ''The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English'
p.160
/ref>Ultramontane Associates (1999
''Culture Wars'', Volume 19
p.94
The form "coochi" is derived from the more common "coochie" of the early 1990s.


See also

* " Hoochie Coochie Man" * " The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid" * Coochie Brake


References

{{Reflist English-language slang Internet memes Sexual slang Vagina