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cony-catch

cony-catch verb: to trick, cheat.

Verb

cony-catch (third-person singular simple present cony-catches, present participle cony-catching, simple past and past participle cony-caught)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To trick, cheat.
    • But those that gull and conicatch us with the assurance of an extraordinary facultie […] ought to be double punished.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • [W]hy ſiſter do you thinke I'le cunny-catch you, vvhen you are my cozen?1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature B2, recto

Forms of cony-catch

third-person singular presentcony-catches
present participlecony-catching
past participlecony-caught
pastcony-caught
alternative formconicatch

Origin of cony-catch

Back-formation from cony-catcher.

Questions about cony-catch

What does cony-catch mean?
Cony-catch means to trick, cheat.
What part of speech is cony-catch?
Cony-catch is a verb.
What is the past tense of cony-catch?
The past tense of cony-catch is cony-caught.

Words near cony-catch in the dictionary

  1. conworlds
  2. Conwy
  3. Conwy County Borough
  4. cony
  5. cony wool
  6. cony-catch
  7. cony-catcher
  8. cony-catchers
  9. cony-catches
  10. cony-catching
  11. cony-gry

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