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coney-catching

coney-catching is the alternative spelling of cony-catching.

Meaning of cony-catching

Noun

cony-catching (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, slang, Elizabethan) Deception, trickery.
    • Come, you are so full of conicatching.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about coney-catching

What is coney-catching the alternative spelling of?
Coney-catching is the alternative spelling of cony-catching.

Words near coney-catching in the dictionary

  1. Coney Island mirror
  2. Coney Island whitefish
  3. Coney Islander
  4. coney islands
  5. coney-catcher
  6. coney-catching
  7. coneys
  8. conf
  9. conf.
  10. confab
  11. confabbed

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