cony-catch en · VERB
Etymology
Back-formation from cony-catcher.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To trick, cheat.
[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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cony-caught | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| cony-caught | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| cony-catching | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| conicatch | alternative | lexicographic | |
| cony-catches | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |