Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cohee

/kˈɑhi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: co-hee
IPA: /kˈɑhi/

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Irish.

noun

A person living in or west of the mountainous areas of western Virginia and West Virginia.

Example Sentences

"Small-farm “Cohees” of the Shenandoah were mainly German and Scotch-Irish. They were industrious, duty-loving, puritanical. Rivalry and antipathy between Tuckahoe and Cohee began early, and still exists today."
"Even closer to home, Johnny watches with growing concern the widening gulf between the stable and “civilized” Tidewater inhabitants, the Tuckahoes of Old Virginia, and the settlers of the Appalachian frontier, the Cohees of New Virginia, […]"
"Like the Cohees of Virginia, Pennsylvanians west of the Alleghenies often viewed their neighbors to the east with suspicion and outright hostility. A federal excise tax provided the flashpoint for 1794's Whiskey Rebellion, and[…]"

Etymology

Munster variant of Coffey.

Inflected Forms

Cohees (plural) Cohea (alternative) Coohee (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

tuckahoe

Rhymes With

asahi mizrahi yahi

Questions

How do you pronounce cohee?: The recorded pronunciation is /kˈɑhi/.
What does cohee mean?: A surname from Irish.
Where does cohee come from?: Munster variant of Coffey.

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