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cunny-catching

cunny-catching is the alternative form 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 cunny-catching

What is cunny-catching the alternative form of?
Cunny-catching is the alternative form of cony-catching.

Words near cunny-catching in the dictionary

  1. cunnings
  2. Cunnington
  3. Cunningtons
  4. Cunninyeuk
  5. cunny
  6. cunny-catching
  7. Cuno
  8. cunoniaceous
  9. Cunos
  10. cuns
  11. Cunsolo

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