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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of cousin.

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Examples

  • One said solemnly that he had a "coosin" to avenge, and now his chance had come.

    Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

  • Northumberland rauished the wife of one Berne that was a noble man of the countrie about Yorke, who tooke such great despight thereat, that he fled out of the land, and went into Denmarke, and there complained vnto the king of Denmarke his coosin of the iniurie doone to him by king Osbright.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • But Iames Maier in the annales of Flanders saieth, that he was drowned by fortune of the seas in a small vessell, and being cast vp into a créeke on the coast of Picardie, was found by Adolfe earle of Bullongne that was his coosin germane, and honorablie buried by the same Adolfe in the church of Bertine.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • “May be he is her coosin; but coosins are nae that sib that a weeder is to be hailed aboot jist ane as though she were ony quean at a fair.”

    The Eustace Diamonds 1873

  • "For the matter o 'that, ony man that comes the way may be ca'ed a coosin."

    The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

  • "May be he is her coosin; but coosins are nae that sib that a weedow is to be hailed aboot jist ane as though she were ony quean at a fair."

    The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

  • 'You ain't a'taken it amiss, squoire, 'cause he was coosin to yourself?'

    The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848

  • "May be he is her coosin; but coosins are nae that sib that a weedow is to be hailed aboot jist ane as though she were ony quean at a fair."

    The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

  • "For the matter o 'that, ony man that comes the way may be ca'ed a coosin."

    The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

  • 'He's a coosin o' yours, squoire; and long as I've known Suffolk, I've never known nothing but good o 'you and yourn.

    The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848

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