Meaning of COZEN
| Pronunciation: | | 'kuzun
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- [v] cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"
- [v] act with artful deceit
- [v] be false to; be dishonest with
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| | Synonyms: | | deceive, delude, lead on |
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| | See Also: | | beat, befool, betray, cheat, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chisel, cuckold, ensnare, entrap, fob, fool, fox, frame, gain, gull, hoax, humbug, play a joke on, play a trick on, pull a fast one on, pull someone's leg, rip off, sell, set up, shill, trick, victimise, victimize, wander, win | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Coz"en\ (k?z"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cozened} (-'nd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Cozening} (-'n-?ng). ] [From cousin, hence,
literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F.
cousiner.]
To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by
small arts, or in a pitiful way.
He had cozened the world by fine phrases. --Macaulay.
Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the
letters. --Locke.
Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen
him, and expose him to public mirth for having been
cozened. --Clarendon.
\Coz"en\, v. i.
To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
Some cogging, cozening slave. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | beat, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, crib, defraud, delude, diddle, do, do in, do out of, double-cross, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mislead, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, sell out, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize |
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