Coney Island
Appearance
See also: coney island
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch Konijneneiland, from konijn[en] (“rabbit[s]”) + eiland (“island”), literally “island of rabbits”; equivalent to cony + island.
Proper noun
[edit]- A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
- 1993, Norman M. Klein, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, Verso, →ISBN, page 20:
- From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.
- 2001, Anton Myrer, A Green Desire, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 427:
- "If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"
- 2006, Nick Tosches, King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 207:
- […] Sam Tietch, who performed as a Coney Island wrestler under the name of Vach "Cyclone" Lewis.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Coney Island (plural Coney Islands)
- A Coney Island hot dog.
- 1994, William J. Coughlin, In the Presence of Enemies, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 107:
- The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....
- 2004, Beth Allen, Susan Westmoreland, “Tales of the Coney Island Dog”, in Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook, →ISBN, page 49:
- By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."
- A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.