Cony-catcher
Co´ny-catch`er
| n. | 1. | A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. |
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(16.) On this point see Angela Hurworth, "Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld," Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 120-32.
What was this supremely talented playwright doing consorting with cony-catchers?
Dekker, for instance, did much of his writing in prison and could see the culture of cony-catchers through the eyes of the punished.
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