cozeningn.
/ˈkʌz(ə)nɪŋ/ The action of cozen v.; cheating, fraudulent dealing; an imposture.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of
braida1000
fraudc1374
mock1523
brogue1537
flim-flamc1538
imposture1548
lie1560
cozening1576
smoke-hole1580
gullery1598
gull1600
cog1602
coggery1602
fraudulency1630
imposition1632
cheat1649
fourbery1650
prestige1656
sham1677
crimp1684
bite1711
humbug1750
swindle1778
hookum-snivey1781
shim-sham1797
gag1805
intake1808
racket1819
wooden nutmeg1822
sell1838
caper1851
skin game1879
Kaffir bargain1899
swizzle1913
swizz1915
put-on1919
ready-up1924
rort1926
jack-up1945
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > action
bulling1532
cogging1570
cozening1576
coney-catching1591
fool-taking1592
gulling1600
bat-fowling1602
sharking1602
imposturing1618
mountebanking1672
shamming1677
sharping1692
fineering1765
overreachinga1774
pigeoning1808
flat-catching1821
thimble-shifting1834
thimblerigging1839
strawing1851
thimbling1857
fiddling1884
piking1884
ramping1891
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 27 With colourable shifts and cloudy cossening.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 60 None take true bodies..they are..meere illusions and cosenings.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 149 The mysteries of over-reaching and cozening.
1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 34 By plundering, oppression, cosening.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
cozeningadj.
That cozens; cheating, deceitful, fraudulent.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > cheating
trifling?a1400
cogging1542
cheatingc1555
flim-flam1577
overreaching1579
cozening1583
fogging1585
circumventing1603
gulling1614
imposturing1618
chicaning1698
crimping1699
bilking1732
humbugging1752
imposinga1754
nailing1819
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H3v By which kind of theft, (for this coosoning shift is no better) they rake in great somes of mony.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity viii. 133 The..gulling of them with delusions and cousening devices.
1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 10 The Traders here are a..cozening People.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 182 A great stronghold Unto the cozening gods of old.
Derivatives
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adverb]
fraudulently1474
fraudfullyc1480
fraudelously1481
knavishly1481
overreachingly1571
cozeningly1611
mountebankly1619
quacksalvingly1652
imposterously1657
sharkingly1659
upon the sham1689
on the cross1802
quackishly1816
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pipeusement, deceitfully,..couseningly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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