- 1欺騙、哄騙（文／舊）
To cozen someone is to trick them, usually in a smooth or artful way rather than by a blunt lie. It is an old verb. You will meet it in novels, history, and a certain kind of high style; almost nobody says it at the shops. When it does appear, it often has a slightly moral tone: someone was cozened out of money, land, or trust. There is a related old noun, cozenage, for the trick itself, but that is even more . If you need this meaning in ordinary English, cheat, trick, or deceive will land; cozen is for when you want the older colour.
組成Scholars do not all agree. Some take it as coz(y) plus -en. Others say it may come from old Italian cozzonare, “to cheat,” from cozzone, a middleman or broker, from Latin cōciō, a dealer. Treat both as “perhaps,” not as a settled family tree.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cozenname
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A surname.
cozenverb詞源 1/ˈkəʊzən/
- 1
To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with.
- "As I see it, Master Fraser, a 'bairn' ought to be verra concerned when a mon thrice her age cozens up to her."
- A wasp nest cozened up in the corner of the far ceiling.
cozenverb詞源 2/ˈkʌzən/
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archaicTo cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
- […] good Vulcan, for Cupids sake that hath cousned us all: befriend us as thou maiest […]
- What diuell was't / That thus hath couſend you at hoodman-blinde?
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