Cozen vs Threap - What's the difference?
cozen | threap |
(archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
* 1602 , , Act III, Scene 2,
* , 1851, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor , Volume 1,
* 1866 , Spoils, By a Receiver'', Charles Chauncey Burr (editor), ''The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787 , Volume 4,
* 1914 , , The Gates of Doom , 2001,
to scold, rebuke
to argue, bicker
* Percy's Reliques
to call, to name
to cozen or cheat
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.
To beat or thrash.
As verbs the difference between cozen and threap
is that cozen is to cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way while threap is to scold, rebuke.As a noun threap is
an altercation, quarrel, argument.cozen
English
Verb
(en verb)- What devil was't / That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
page 895,
- It is certain that children may be cozened into goodness, and sick men to health, and passengers in a storm into safety; and the reason of these is, — because not only the end is fair, and charitable, and just, but the means are such which do no injury to the persons which are to receive benefit;.
page 497,
- The man, too, who has been matrimonially cozened''''', "would all the world might be '''cozened'''," for he has been '''cozened''', and beaten too; but with him the cudgel is "hallowed;" he would "hang it o'er the altar;" perhaps for the reason given by the "Merry Wives of Windsor," because "it hath done meritorious service;" and no sooner is he, by a seemingly merciful disposition of Providence, released from the cudgeler, but he is in haste to be ' cozened and beaten again.
page 217,
- But that you should have been cozened' with me, that my ' cozening should in part have been a natural sequel to your own, rather than an independent error of mine, is a helpful reflection to me in this dark hour.
Usage notes
Modern usage is generally to effect a dated style.References
* Webster's New School and Office Dictionary, copyright 1962 *"cozen"on Online Etymology Dictionary
threap
English
Alternative forms
* threip * threpeVerb
(en verb)- It's not for a man with a woman to threap .
- (Halliwell)
- He threaped me down that it was so.
- (Robert Burns)
- (Halliwell)