cony-catch
verbEtymology Back-formation from cony-catcher.
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Obsolete 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: