coiner

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English coynour, from Middle French coigneur; equivalent to coin +‎ -er (agent noun suffix). In the cryptocurrency sense, coin +‎ -er (“supporter”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === coiner (plural coiners) A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins). Synonyms: minter, moneyer Hyponym: counterfeiter 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Book 4, Chapter 6, pp. 139-40,[3] The dangers to which a false coiner is every where exposed, if he lives in the country of which he counterfeits the coin, and to which his agents or correspondents are exposed if he lives in a foreign country, are by far too great to be incurred for the sake of a profit of six or seven per cent. A person who invents words or phrases. Synonym: neologist 1651, John Ellistone (translator), Signatura Rerum by Jakob Böhme (1621), London: Gyles Calvert, Postscript, “The Translators Exposition of the word, Sude,” p. 207,[4] These are some unusual Words, which I have used in the rendering this Book into English; not that I would make it a Strange-Lation, or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only, but to express as well, and as fitly as I could, the Authors Intent and scope […] (obsolete) A person who invents or fabricates (stories, lies, etc.). (cryptocurrencies) A person who invests in or advocates for cryptocurrencies. Synonym: cryptobro Antonym: nocoiner ==== Derived terms ==== nocoiner (no-coiner) ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Cerino, Cirone, norice, orcein, orcine, recoin == Middle English == === Noun === coiner alternative form of coynour