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coosin

coosin is the obsolete form of cozen.

Meaning of cozen

Verb (1)

cozen (third-person singular simple present cozens, present participle cozening, simple past and past participle cozened)

  1. (intransitive) To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with.
    • "As I see it, Master Fraser, a 'bairn' ought to be verra concerned when a mon thrice her age cozens up to her."2008, Hannah Howell, Silver Flame, page 354

Verb (2)

cozen (third-person singular simple present cozens, present participle cozening, simple past and past participle cozened)

  1. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
    • […] good Vulcan, for Cupids sake that hath cousned us all: befriend us as thou maiest […]c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC

See all 3 meanings of cozen

Forms of coosin

third-person singular presentcoosins
present participlecoosining
past participlecoosined
pastcoosined

Questions about coosin

What is coosin the obsolete form of?
Coosin is the obsolete form of cozen.

Words near coosin in the dictionary

  1. coosen
  2. coosened
  3. coosening
  4. coosens
  5. cooses
  6. coosin
  7. coosined
  8. coosing
  9. coosining
  10. coosins
  11. coossification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coosin (page history and authors); cozen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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