cooze

Uncertain, but compare Danish kusse (“vagina”), Persian کس‎ (kos, “vagina”), vernacular Arabic كس‎ (kuss, “vagina”), and 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.

• IPA^(key): /kuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

cooze (plural coozes)

1. (slang, vulgar) A vagina.
   • 1987, Stephen King, It

     "It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze," Don Hagarty said.

   • 1991, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, All the Visions

     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.

   • 2006, National Lampoon Magazine Rack

     The thing is, her cooze was real cute and everything but it stank!

2. (slang, derogatory) A woman (often when viewed as an object of sexual desire).
   • 1929, Blind Blake, Diddie Wa Diddie

     I went out and looked around / Somebody yelled: "There's a cooze in town!"

   • 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

     I write this beautiful fuckin' letter, I slave over it, and what happens? The dumb cooze never writes back.

   • 2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover

     Okay, the Sherbourne cooze was a bilingual stewardess.

• “cooze” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “Cooze”, in Infoplease Dictionary‎, (Please provide a date or year)
• Spears, Richard A. (1991) Slang and Euphemism, New York: Signet, →ISBN