Plural of cooch; informal or slang term, possibly related to a variant of 'couching' or a small movement or shelter.
From cooch, possibly from 'couch' meaning to crouch or hide, or from Yiddish origins. The term evolved in informal American English, particularly in early 20th-century entertainment contexts.
Cooches entered English slang through vaudeville theater culture, where a 'cooch dance' was a form of suggestive dancing—it's a rare case where entertainment slang got preserved in the dictionary because enough people wrote it down.
Slang for female genitalia, vulgarized in informal speech. Reduces women to body parts and carries infantilizing connotation.
Avoid in formal/professional contexts. Use anatomically precise terms (vulva, vagina) when clinical language needed; otherwise use respectful person-first language.
["vulva","vagina","genitalia"]
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