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Webster 1913 Edition
Cony-catch
Co′ny-catch
,Verb.
T.
To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
[Obs.]
Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be
cony-catched
in the this business. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Cony-catch
CONY-CATCH
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
cony-catch
cony-catch
English
Alternative forms
- conicatch (obsolete)
Verb
cony-catch (third-person singular simple present cony-catches, present participle cony-catching, simple past and past participle cony-caught)
- (obsolete, transitive) To trick, cheat.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.208:
- But those that gull and conicatch us with the assurance of an extraordinary facultie […] ought to be double punished.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.208:
Usage notes
- Shakespeare used cony-catched as a past tense.