cony-catching
English
Alternative forms
- coney-catching
- conicatching
- cunny-catching
Noun
cony-catching (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Deception, trickery. [16th-17th c.]
- c.1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, IV.1:
- Come, you are so full of conicatching.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.8:
- 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.
- c.1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, IV.1: