Possibly a clipping of hootchy-kootchy.^[1] Alternatively, possibly from cunt with influence from American slang term cookie (“vulva”).^[2] References to coochee dance (with various spellings) are attested from the end of the 19th century.^[1] The sense of “vagina or vulva” is attested from the early 20th century.^[2] Compare hoochie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːt͡ʃi/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːtʃi

coochie (plural coochies)

1. (US, obsolete) The hootchy-kootchy, a type of erotic dance.
   • 1899 January, “New Films for ‘Screen’ Machines”, in The Phonoscope‎^[1], page 15:

     LITTLE EGYPT IN COOCHEE COOCHEE DANCE. A vision of gauze, lace and spangles, performing the famous danse-du-ventre

2. (US, slang) The vagina or vulva.
   • 1937, Cab Calloway, “My Gal Mezzanine”:

     She’s the red hot mama from Bahama with the red hot cootchie-coo!
     You get sweet infection in the deep hot section,
     When that gal looks at you!

3. (US, slang, uncommon) Sex with a woman.
   • 1999, Timmothy McCann, Until‎^[2], page 134:

     That fat sum bitch don’t even get coochie, yet he trust to tell me what to do with mine? Please.

• coochy coo