cozenv.

/ˈkʌz(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s–1800s cozen; also 1500s cooson, coosin, ( cousinge, cossen, cussen), 1500s–1600s coosen, cosen, coson, cousin, 1600s cosin, cozon, coozen, cousen, couson, couzin, 1600s–1700s couzen.

Etymology: Derivation uncertain. The earliest trace of the word appears to be in the derivative cousoner in J. Awdelay's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, 1561 (see cozener n.); it is not improbable that it arose among the vagabond class. It has generally been associated with cousin n. and adj., and compared with French cousiner , explained by Cotgrave, 1611, as ‘to clayme kindred for aduantage, or particular ends; as he, who to saue charges in trauelling, goes from house to house, as cosin to the owner of euerie one’, by Littré as ‘faire le parasite sous prétexte de cousinage’. From this it is not far to a transitive sense ‘to cheat, beguile, under pretext of cousinship’: compare also the phrase ‘to make a cousin of’ under cousin n. and adj. Phrases 4. Still, the transition is not evidenced in the quots. for this verb; and it is noteworthy that while in cousin, noun, the ending -in predominates, this verb has sometimes -on, most commonly -en, the prevalent 17th cent. forms being cousen, couzen, cosen, cozen, the latter of which became the established form c1710. In view of these difficulties, Mr. Smythe Palmer has suggested derivation < Italian cozzonare, explained by Florio 1598–1611 as ‘to play the horse-breaker or courser..Also, to play the craftie knaue’, derivative of cozzone, ‘a horse-breaker..a horse-courser. Also, a craftie knaue’. But this also presents difficulties, which the extant evidence is not sufficient to remove.

a. transitive. To cheat, defraud by deceit.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle

defraud1362

deceivec1380

plucka1500

lurch1530

defeata1538

souse1545

lick1548

wipe1549

fraud1563

use1564

cozen1573

nick1576

verse1591

rooka1595

trim1600

skelder1602

firk1604

dry-shave1620

fiddle1630

nose1637

foista1640

doa1642

sharka1650

chouse1654

burn1655

bilk1672

under-enter1692

sharp1699

stick1699

finger1709

roguea1714

fling1749

swindle1773

jink1777

queer1778

to do over1781

jump1789

mace1790

chisel1808

slang1812

bucket1819

to clean out1819

give it1819

to put in the hole1819

ramp1819

sting1819

victimize1839

financier1840

gum1840

snakea1861

to take down1865

verneuk1871

bunco1875

rush1875

gyp1879

salt1882

daddle1883

work1884

to have (one) on toast1886

slip1890

to do (a person) in the eye1891

sugar1892

flay1893

to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895

con1896

pad1897

screw1900

short-change1903

to do in1906

window dress1913

ream1914

twist1914

clean1915

rim1918

tweedle1925

hype1926

clip1927

take1927

gazump1928

yentz1930

promote1931

to take (someone) to the cleaners1932

to carve up1933

chizz1948

stiff1950

scam1963

to rip off1969

to stitch up1970

skunk1971

to steal (someone) blind1974

diddle-

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 10^v Delight not for pleasure, two howses to keepe, least..Iankin & Ienykin, cosen the so: to make the repent it.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 110 All is lost aforehand, especially if two be confederate to cousin the thirde.

1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. §218 The offence of cosening taketh place if any thing be done by guile in or out of contracts.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 223 [He] would not willingly be cousened in his pay.

1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple lxxi All worldly thoughts are but theeves met together To couzin thee.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Ss6^v He that trusts to a Greek is sure to be cousened.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiv. 464 Since an Œtolian cozen'd me.

1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 8 They can only cozen their neighbours.

b. Const. of, out of: cf. cheat v. 2 (out) of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > trick out of

delude1493

juggle1531

bull1532

defeata1538

cozen1602

Don Diego1607

foista1640

sham1681

jockey1719

fling1749

short1942

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 23 a Cosining a Ladie..of a certayne summe of money.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea vii. 15 They had cosoned the Earle of Cumberland..and others, some of fiue poundes, some of ten.

1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xiii. xv, in Wks. 358 Soldiers..had been Couzen'd of their Pay.

1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley i. 5 He would be cozened out of no more money.

c. absol.

ΚΠ

a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 226 Nor to lie for your pleasure, nor to cozen for riches.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 39 A Light..For Spiritual Trades to cousen by.

a. To deceive, dupe, beguile, impose upon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]

deceivec1330

defraud1362

falsec1374

abuse?a1439

fraud1563

visure1570

cozen1583

coney-catch1592

to fetch in1592

cheat1597

sell1607

mountebanka1616

dabc1616

nigglea1625

to put it on1625

shuffle1627

cuckold1644

to put a cheat on1649

tonya1652

fourbe1654

imposturea1659

impose1662

slur1664

knap1665

to pass upon (also on)1673

snub1694

ferret1699

nab1706

shool1745

humbug1750

gag1777

gudgeon1787

kid1811

bronze1817

honeyfuggle1829

Yankee1837

middle1863

fuck1866

fake1867

skunk1867

dead-beat1888

gold-brick1893

slicker1897

screw1900

to play it1901

to do in1906

game1907

gaff1934

scalp1939

sucker1939

sheg1943

swizz1961

butt-fuck1979

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G5 Be not vtterly deceiued (or to speake in plainer termes cosoned at their hands).

1607 S. Hieron Spirituall Tillage in Wks. (1620) I. 397 Thus men coosen themselues with their owne fancies.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 200 By gar I am cozoned, I ha married oon Garsoon, a boy.

a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1839) 96 The picture of the grapes that cousened the birds.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Speeches Ajax & Ulysses in Fables 462 All eyes were couzen'd by the borrow'd Vest.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xiv. 322 Do not think..to cozen your contemporaries.

1876 S. Smiles Huguenots in Eng. (rev. ed.) i. 3 Those agents..who best knew the art of deceiving and cozening the people.

†b. To beguile, while away (time). Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1685 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Άνεκδοτα Ὲτερουιακα 315 In Vienna, where he couzen'd his time in Love and Gallantry.

c. absol.

ΚΠ

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 141 Asylums, hospitals and schools, He used to swear, were made to cozen.

3. To beguile or cheat into, up, etc.; †to induce by deception to do a thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > subtly or deceptively

bicharrec1175

inveigle1549

stale1557

entrap1566

to link in1592

solicit1592

beguile1594

insinuate1594

cozen1599

milka1625

trick1707

veigle1745

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > by subtle or underhand means

undermine1457

compass1563

cozen1599

wire-draw1622

subinduce1646

to get at ——1780

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > induce by deception

cozen1599

flim-flam1660

cheat1856

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F^v Would ye haue me..cussen my selfe to beare her iniuries?

a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 14 Our feet are still In the same posture cozen'd up the hill.

1665 R. Howard & J. Dryden Indian-queen i, in R. Howard Four New Plays 143 Be cousen'd by thy guilty honesty, To make thy self thy Countreyes enemy.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 74 It..couzen'd very many honest men into apprehensions very Prejudicial to the King.

1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xliv. 339 A man who was cozened into leaving every shilling away from his own children.

Derivatives

ˈcozened adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [adjective] > fooled, duped

foolified1584

fool-taken1608

cozened1610

gullified1624

gulled1647

sweet1673

bubbled1681

bilked1682

imposed-upon1706

cheated1709

duped1756

pigeoned1777

swindled1809

thimblerigged1840

befooled1842

bamboozled1866

spoofed1958

dicked1972

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie The coozned birds busily take their flight.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iv. 23 Sawcie trusting of the cosin'd thoughts Defiles the pitchy night.

1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 134 The cozened countryman.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	cozen
释义	cozenv. /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s–1800s cozen; also 1500s cooson, coosin, ( cousinge, cossen, cussen), 1500s–1600s coosen, cosen, coson, cousin, 1600s cosin, cozon, coozen, cousen, couson, couzin, 1600s–1700s couzen. Etymology: Derivation uncertain. The earliest trace of the word appears to be in the derivative cousoner in J. Awdelay's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, 1561 (see cozener n.); it is not improbable that it arose among the vagabond class. It has generally been associated with cousin n. and adj., and compared with French cousiner , explained by Cotgrave, 1611, as ‘to clayme kindred for aduantage, or particular ends; as he, who to saue charges in trauelling, goes from house to house, as cosin to the owner of euerie one’, by Littré as ‘faire le parasite sous prétexte de cousinage’. From this it is not far to a transitive sense ‘to cheat, beguile, under pretext of cousinship’: compare also the phrase ‘to make a cousin of’ under cousin n. and adj. Phrases 4. Still, the transition is not evidenced in the quots. for this verb; and it is noteworthy that while in cousin, noun, the ending -in predominates, this verb has sometimes -on, most commonly -en, the prevalent 17th cent. forms being cousen, couzen, cosen, cozen, the latter of which became the established form c1710. In view of these difficulties, Mr. Smythe Palmer has suggested derivation < Italian cozzonare, explained by Florio 1598–1611 as ‘to play the horse-breaker or courser..Also, to play the craftie knaue’, derivative of cozzone, ‘a horse-breaker..a horse-courser. Also, a craftie knaue’. But this also presents difficulties, which the extant evidence is not sufficient to remove. 1. a. transitive. To cheat, defraud by deceit. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 10^v Delight not for pleasure, two howses to keepe, least..Iankin & Ienykin, cosen the so: to make the repent it. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 110 All is lost aforehand, especially if two be confederate to cousin the thirde. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. §218 The offence of cosening taketh place if any thing be done by guile in or out of contracts. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 223 [He] would not willingly be cousened in his pay. 1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple lxxi All worldly thoughts are but theeves met together To couzin thee. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Ss6^v He that trusts to a Greek is sure to be cousened. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiv. 464 Since an Œtolian cozen'd me. 1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 8 They can only cozen their neighbours. b. Const. of, out of: cf. cheat v. 2 (out) of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > trick out of delude1493 juggle1531 bull1532 defeata1538 cozen1602 Don Diego1607 foista1640 sham1681 jockey1719 fling1749 short1942 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 23 a Cosining a Ladie..of a certayne summe of money. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea vii. 15 They had cosoned the Earle of Cumberland..and others, some of fiue poundes, some of ten. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xiii. xv, in Wks. 358 Soldiers..had been Couzen'd of their Pay. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley i. 5 He would be cozened out of no more money. c. absol. ΚΠ a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 226 Nor to lie for your pleasure, nor to cozen for riches. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 39 A Light..For Spiritual Trades to cousen by. 2. a. To deceive, dupe, beguile, impose upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] deceivec1330 defraud1362 falsec1374 abuse?a1439 fraud1563 visure1570 cozen1583 coney-catch1592 to fetch in1592 cheat1597 sell1607 mountebanka1616 dabc1616 nigglea1625 to put it on1625 shuffle1627 cuckold1644 to put a cheat on1649 tonya1652 fourbe1654 imposturea1659 impose1662 slur1664 knap1665 to pass upon (also on)1673 snub1694 ferret1699 nab1706 shool1745 humbug1750 gag1777 gudgeon1787 kid1811 bronze1817 honeyfuggle1829 Yankee1837 middle1863 fuck1866 fake1867 skunk1867 dead-beat1888 gold-brick1893 slicker1897 screw1900 to play it1901 to do in1906 game1907 gaff1934 scalp1939 sucker1939 sheg1943 swizz1961 butt-fuck1979 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G5 Be not vtterly deceiued (or to speake in plainer termes cosoned at their hands). 1607 S. Hieron Spirituall Tillage in Wks. (1620) I. 397 Thus men coosen themselues with their owne fancies. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 200 By gar I am cozoned, I ha married oon Garsoon, a boy. a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1839) 96 The picture of the grapes that cousened the birds. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Speeches Ajax & Ulysses in Fables 462 All eyes were couzen'd by the borrow'd Vest. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xiv. 322 Do not think..to cozen your contemporaries. 1876 S. Smiles Huguenots in Eng. (rev. ed.) i. 3 Those agents..who best knew the art of deceiving and cozening the people. †b. To beguile, while away (time). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1685 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Άνεκδοτα Ὲτερουιακα 315 In Vienna, where he couzen'd his time in Love and Gallantry. c. absol. ΚΠ a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 141 Asylums, hospitals and schools, He used to swear, were made to cozen. 3. To beguile or cheat into, up, etc.; †to induce by deception to do a thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > subtly or deceptively bicharrec1175 inveigle1549 stale1557 entrap1566 to link in1592 solicit1592 beguile1594 insinuate1594 cozen1599 milka1625 trick1707 veigle1745 the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > by subtle or underhand means undermine1457 compass1563 cozen1599 wire-draw1622 subinduce1646 to get at ——1780 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > induce by deception cozen1599 flim-flam1660 cheat1856 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F^v Would ye haue me..cussen my selfe to beare her iniuries? a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 14 Our feet are still In the same posture cozen'd up the hill. 1665 R. Howard & J. Dryden Indian-queen i, in R. Howard Four New Plays 143 Be cousen'd by thy guilty honesty, To make thy self thy Countreyes enemy. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 74 It..couzen'd very many honest men into apprehensions very Prejudicial to the King. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xliv. 339 A man who was cozened into leaving every shilling away from his own children. Derivatives ˈcozened adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [adjective] > fooled, duped foolified1584 fool-taken1608 cozened1610 gullified1624 gulled1647 sweet1673 bubbled1681 bilked1682 imposed-upon1706 cheated1709 duped1756 pigeoned1777 swindled1809 thimblerigged1840 befooled1842 bamboozled1866 spoofed1958 dicked1972 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie The coozned birds busily take their flight. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iv. 23 Sawcie trusting of the cosin'd thoughts Defiles the pitchy night. View more context for this quotation 1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 134 The cozened countryman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.1573
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