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cogniacs

cogniacs is the plural of cogniac.

Meaning of cogniac

Noun

cogniac (uncountable)

  1. (US, dated, slang) Counterfeit money.
    • There are sixteen wholesale dealers […] to whom they sell, at a regular per centage, their imported Cogniac; […]1823, William A. Coffey, Inside Out, Or, An Interior View of the New-York State Prison: Together with Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Several of the Convicts, page 108

Questions about cogniacs

What is cogniacs the plural of?
Cogniacs is the plural of cogniac.

Words near cogniacs in the dictionary

  1. cognatus
  2. cognescenti
  3. cognetics
  4. Cognevich
  5. cogniac
  6. cogniacs
  7. cognification
  8. cognisable
  9. cognisable offence
  10. cognisable offences
  11. cognisably

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