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▪ I. † ˈcony-catching, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. cony + catching.]
Cheating, duping, knavery.
1591Greene (title) The Second and last part of Conny-Catching. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 45 Come, you are so full of conicatching. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iv, Subtlety, cunnycatching, knavery..carries all away. c1650R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii, Cheats who liv'd by coni⁓catching. 1703E. Ward London Spy xi. 260 (Farmer) Being almost Drunk, their Brains ran on Coney-catching.
▪ II. † ˈcony-catching, ppl. a. Obs.
That cheats or tricks; gulling, swindling.
1592Nobody & Someb. (1878) 338 These Cunnicatching knaves would have made lesse than Nobody of him. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 128 Your cony-catching Rascalls, Bardolf, Nym, and Pistoll. 1620Melton Astrolog. 21 The most..Conycatching Art of Astrologie. 1688R. L.'Estrange Brief Hist. Times II. 115 A Brace of Cony-Catching Impostors. |