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   cozen

   /ˈkʌz(ə)n/

   verb

   • 1. trick or deceive: literary "do not think to cozen your contemporaries"
   • ▪ obtain by deception: literary "he was able to cozen a profit"

   Word Origin late 16th century: perhaps from obsolete Italian cozzonare ‘to cheat’, from cozzone ‘middleman, broker’, from Latin cocio ‘dealer’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cozener noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • Z

     10

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

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