coiners

Noun

coiner (plural coiners)

1. A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins).
   • But canst thou excuse thy selfe of vice in that thou art not couetous? certeinly no more then the murtherer would therefore be guiltlesse bicause he is no coyner.1580, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt, London: Gabriel Cawood, page 85

   Synonyms:

   minter, moneyer

2. A person who invents words or phrases.
   • These are some unusual Words, which I have used in the rendering this Book into English; not that I would make it a Strange-Lation, or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only, but to express as well, and as fitly as I could, the Authors Intent and scope […]1651, John Ellistone (translator), Signatura Rerum by Jakob Böhme (1621), London: Gyles Calvert, Postscript, “The Translators Exposition of the word, Sude,” p. 207

   Synonyms:

   neologist

3. (obsolete) A person who invents or fabricates (stories, lies, etc.).
   • […] the inuenter & coyner of al these michiefes, & seruante & bondslaue of al bawdie luste, fylthie concupiscence, and all detestable sinne and vice.1566, Petrus Frarinus, translated by John Fowler, An Oration against the Unlawfull Insturrections of the Protestantes of our Time, Antwerp
4. A person who invests in or advocates for cryptocurrencies.

   Synonyms:

   cryptobro

   Antonyms:

   nocoiner

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