cony-catch

verb

To trick, cheat.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person cony-catches · participle present cony-catching · participle past cony-caught · past cony-caught · alternative conicatch

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo 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
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    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

Origin

Back-formation from cony-catcher.

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cony-catch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cony-catch

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“cony-catch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cony-catch. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cony-catch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cony-catch.

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