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English
Etymology
Back-formation from cony-catcher.
Verb
cony-catch (third-person singular simple present cony-catches, present participle cony-catching, simple past and past participle cony-caught)
- (obsolete, transitive) To trick, cheat.
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:[W]hy ſiſter do you thinke I'le cunny-catch you, vvhen you are my cozen?
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