English

Alternative forms

• coney-catching
• conicatching
• cunny-catching

Noun

cony-catching ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Deception, trickery. [16th-17th c.]
   • c.1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, IV.1:

     Come, you are so full of conicatching.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:

     I doe beware and keepe my selfe from such treasons, and cunny-catching in mine owne bosome, not by an unquiet, and tumultuary curiosity, but rather by a diversion and resolution.