cahootn.
/kəˈhuːt/ Originally U.S.
1.
a. ‘Used in the South and West to denote a company, or partnership’ (Bartlett). Frequently in plural, esp. in in cahoot(s) (with): in league or partnership (with).
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [adjective] > associated for common purpose
federeda1382
confedered1528
conjunct1529
adjoinate1543
confederate1555
in league with1565
associate1600
banded1601
combined1603
colleagued1605
confederated1605
contesserate1606
conjunctivea1616
conspired1619
coalesced1765
co-allied1765
leagued1781
federalized1793
federated1793
in cahoot(s) (with)18..
interleagued1844
federal1867
18.. Chron. Pineville I wouldn't swar he wasn't in cahoot with the devil.
1829 S. Kirkham Eng. Gram. 207 Hese in cohoot with me.
1834 S. S. Prentiss in J. D. Shields Life & Times S. S. Prentiss (1884) 239 I will splice the member from North Carolina to you, and for a short time will consider you in cahoot.
1862 G. K. Wilder MS. Diary 14 May (D.A.E.) Mc wished me to go in cahoots in a store.
1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 26 Are you willing to work in cahoots with yours truly?
1892 Congress. Rec. 16 Mar. 2133/1 Let's go into cahoots and go a coon hunting.
1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne xxv. 280 I have good reasons for thinking they were in cahoots.
1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xii. 108 She was in cahoots with a doctor.
b. attributive.
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1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs iii. 37 If..I could only get the township and range, I'd make a cahoot business with old man Doublejoy.
2. A confederate.
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1869 Congress. Globe 6 Apr. 538/3 Fisk and his ‘cahoots’ have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed.
Derivatives
cahoot v. to act in partnership.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]
jousta1325
ally?a1400
joinc1400
associe1441
confederc1460
to stick together1525
band1530
to join forces1560
colleaguec1565
alliance1569
to enter league1578
unite1579
interleague1590
confederate1591
to join hands1598
combine1608
injointa1616
combinda1626
bandy1633
comply1646
federate1648
leaguea1649
associate1653
coalesce1657
to understand each other1663
sociate1688
to row in the same (also in one) boat1787
rendezvous1817
to make common cause (with)1845
to sing the same song1846
cahoot1857
to gang up1910
jungle1922
1857 N.Y. Herald 20 May They all agree to cahoot with their claims against Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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