I will have no gallivanting, no cozening and smiling and prating and distracting.
I am only glad that he did not succeed in cozening you further than he did.
A fine life thou hast of it with thy silks and thy baubles, cozening the last few shillings from the pouches of dying men.
You know I never get or save anything by cozening or classmating.
A real expert in cozening, a master of guile, was wanted to exploit the opportunity to its limit.
I have made a scurvy bargain: art a cozening knave, I doubt, as well as a nincompoop.'
Struggle forces upon the group the necessity of cozening, beguiling, managing its members.
Add not new crimes by cozening me anew; for I shall find out truth, though it lie hid even in the bottom of Philander's, heart.'
But even the basest of the yokels and groundlings could not make merry over the cozening of so noble a gentleman!
Within one moment they would be round and artless like a child's, and long and cozening like a gypsy's.
1560s, of uncertain origin; perhaps from French cousiner "cheat on pretext of being a cousin;" or from Middle English cosyn "fraud, trickery" (mid-15c.), which is perhaps related to Old French coçon "dealer, merchant, trader," from Latin cocionem "horse dealer." Related: Cozened; cozening; cozenage.