Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
canny . - noun An obsolete spelling of
cony .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Brave; fine; canny.
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- adjective UK, dialect
brave ;fine ;canny
Etymologies
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Examples
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He lost ten, exclusive of his best agate, fought a boy who had unlawfully possessed himself of his most cherished "conny," and returned home with saddened spirits an hour later, only to find as he went through the gate that he had lost Aldith's dainty little note.
Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915
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• Sawyer doesn't seem all that "conny" to me on the Safe Landing Universe.
Mania News Feed 2010
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Looks like Guido conny city boy short shrifters have been caught with their trousers down on this.
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There are lots of very good neo-conny reasons to bomb Iran, among them $150/bbl oil, which makes those sands in Canada more than viable, extract-wise.
Firedoglake » Oh Wow 2006
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He wanted to gie me a conny ring wi 'a beautiful stone in it.
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He wanted to gie me a conny ring wi 'a beautiful stone in it.
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The counterfet cunning man, and artificial conny-catcher, as I heard, was paide his fiue poundes that night.
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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_Dekker's Dreame_ is chiefly verse and chiefly pious; and then at a date somewhat later than that of our present period, but connected with it by the fact of authorship, begins a very interesting series of pieces, more vivid if somewhat less well written than Greene's, and connected with his "conny-catching" course.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Nor does he seem to have had any occasion to "tread the burning marl" in company with conny-catchers and their associates.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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