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English
Noun
cony-catching (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Deception, trickery.
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Come, you are so full of conicatching.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter VIII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:I doe beware and keepe my selfe from such treasons, and cunny-catching in mine owne bosome, not by an unquiet, and tumultuary curiosity, but rather by a diversion and resolution.