coniacker
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editconiacker (plural coniackers)
- (chiefly US, dated) A counterfeiter, a dealer in counterfeit money.
- 1880, “Penitentiary Points — The "Ledger Man" Interviews the Penitentiary Notables”, in Mexico Weekly Ledger[1], retrieved 2023-05-30, page 3:
- Among the notables we were shown [was] Biebusch, the coniacker, who was sent up from St. Louis about three months ago for ten years for the making and shoving of the queer.
- 1891, “The Government Secret Service”, in Orange County Observer[2], sourced from Pittsburg Dispatch, retrieved 2023-05-30, page 1:
- Twenty-eight men cover this entire country hunting out counterfeits and counterfeiters, devising intricate schemes to catch the coniacker red handed in his infamous work.
- 1899, Frank Cowan, The Millionaire: A Novel[3], page 191:
- "I sold my stock [...] and received in payment five counterfeit one-thousand-dollar-bills!" "What! You insolent man! You dare to tell me to my face that you recognize in me a coniacker or shover of the queer?"