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English
Etymology
From Cogniac Street, a location in Dunham, Quebec close to the United States-Canada border from which a significant amount of counterfeiting took place in the 18th century and early 19th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒnijækɚ/, /ˈkɒnjækɚ/
Noun
coniacker (plural coniackers)
- (chiefly US, dated) A counterfeiter, a dealer in counterfeit money.
1880, “Penitentiary Points — The "Ledger Man" Interviews the Penitentiary Notables”, in Mexico Weekly Ledger, retrieved 2023-05-30, page 3:Among the notables we were shown [was] Biebusch, the coniacker, who was sent up from St. Louis about three months ago for ten years for the making and shoving of the queer.
1891, “The Government Secret Service”, in Orange County Observer, sourced from Pittsburg Dispatch, retrieved 2023-05-30, page 1:Twenty-eight men cover this entire country hunting out counterfeits and counterfeiters, devising intricate schemes to catch the coniacker red handed in his infamous work.
1899, Frank Cowan, The Millionaire: A Novel, page 191:"I sold my stock [...] and received in payment five counterfeit one-thousand-dollar-bills!" "What! You insolent man! You dare to tell me to my face that you recognize in me a coniacker or shover of the queer?"
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