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(verb) - (1) To swindle--the coney, or rabbit, being considered a very simple animal. --John Phin's Shakespeare Cyclopædia and New Glossary, 1902 (2) It has been shown, from Dekker's English Villanies 1632, that the system of swindling was carried to a great length in the 17th century involving a collective society of sharpers, called a warren, and their dupes, rabbit-suckers--that is, young rabbits, or conies. --Robert Nares's Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
April 22, 2018