cozen

1 be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude]

2 act with artful deceit

3 cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

/ˈkʌzən/

Verb

1. To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

Quotations

• 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act III scene 2

  [...] What devil was't

  That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?

• 2006 : Tool, The Pot from 10,000 Days,

  "Now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo..."

References

Webster's New School and Office Dictionary, copyright 1962

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