Coney-catching Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice in medieval and Renaissance England in which devious people on the street would try to con or cheat vulnerable or gullible pedestrians. The term appears in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare, and in the John Florio translation of Montaigne's essay, "Of the Cannibals." The term was first used in print by
Kyle Coney Kyle Coney Kyle Coney (born 1990) is a Gaelic footballer from Northern Ireland. He won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship medal with Tyrone in 2008, also winning Ulster Minor Championships with the county in 2007 and 2008. Coney plays his club football for Ardboe O'Donovan Rossa and won the Tyrone Minor Championship with the club in 2008. He attended a sports and English specialist school called Holy Trinity College in Cookstown. In July 2008 he signed a two-year rookie contract with Australian rules team Sydney Swans. He did not leave for Australia until the completion of the All-Ireland Minor Championship