User talk:Cozen

coz•en |ˈkəzən| verb [ trans. ] trick or deceive : do not think to cozen your contemporaries.
 * • obtain by deception : he was able to cozen a profit.

DERIVATIVES cozenage |-nij| noun cozener noun

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