See cogniac on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From Cogniac Street, a location in Dunham, Quebec close to the United States-Canada border from which a significant amount of counterfeiting took place in the 18th century and early 19th century.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "cogniac (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1823, William A. Coffey, Inside Out, Or, An Interior View of the New-York State Prison: Together with Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Several of the Convicts, page 108:", "text": "[T]here are sixteen wholesale dealers [...] to whom they sell, at a regular per centage, their imported Cogniac; [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1838, Ann Baker Carson, The Memoirs of the Celebrated and Beautiful Mrs. Ann Carson, page 138:", "text": "[N]ext morning the conspirators met at the yellow cottage, where having settled the business of the day, by giving out the cogniac, and receiving her portion of the good money, the honorable corps adjourned to attend to matters of more importance [...].", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1852, “The Counterfeitr's [sic] Reward”, in Jeffersonian Republican, retrieved 2023-05-30, page 1:", "text": "[T]he parties going there to buy the \"stuff\" when a new and good thing was out, at the rate of 8, 10, 15, or 20 dollars good money, for 100 cogniac, according to the quality.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Counterfeit money." ], "id": "en-cogniac-en-noun-usXniKU3", "raw_glosses": [ "(chiefly US, dated, slang) Counterfeit money." ], "tags": [ "US", "dated", "slang", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkɒnjæk/" }, { "homophone": "cognac" }, { "homophone": "konjac" } ], "word": "cogniac" }
{ "etymology_text": "From Cogniac Street, a location in Dunham, Quebec close to the United States-Canada border from which a significant amount of counterfeiting took place in the 18th century and early 19th century.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "cogniac (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English", "English dated terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms with homophones", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1823, William A. Coffey, Inside Out, Or, An Interior View of the New-York State Prison: Together with Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Several of the Convicts, page 108:", "text": "[T]here are sixteen wholesale dealers [...] to whom they sell, at a regular per centage, their imported Cogniac; [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1838, Ann Baker Carson, The Memoirs of the Celebrated and Beautiful Mrs. Ann Carson, page 138:", "text": "[N]ext morning the conspirators met at the yellow cottage, where having settled the business of the day, by giving out the cogniac, and receiving her portion of the good money, the honorable corps adjourned to attend to matters of more importance [...].", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1852, “The Counterfeitr's [sic] Reward”, in Jeffersonian Republican, retrieved 2023-05-30, page 1:", "text": "[T]he parties going there to buy the \"stuff\" when a new and good thing was out, at the rate of 8, 10, 15, or 20 dollars good money, for 100 cogniac, according to the quality.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Counterfeit money." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(chiefly US, dated, slang) Counterfeit money." ], "tags": [ "US", "dated", "slang", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkɒnjæk/" }, { "homophone": "cognac" }, { "homophone": "konjac" } ], "word": "cogniac" }
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