An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 174
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 174
Dan. _glunk_, the guggling of a narrow-mouthed pot or strait-necked bottle when it is emptying; Sw. _klunk-a_, to guggle.
CLUNKERS, _s. pl._ Dirt hardened in clots, so as to render a road, pavement, or floor unequal, S.
Germ. _clunkern_, a knot or clod of dirt.
CLUTE, _s._ The half of the hoof of any cloven-footed animal, S.
_Ramsay._
Germ. _cluft_, fissura, or A. S. _cleofed_, fissus.
CLUTTERING, _part. pr._ Doing any piece of business in an awkward and dirty way, S. B.
Teut. _kleuter-en_, tuditare.
COALS, _To bring over the coals_, to bring to a severe reckoning, S.
_Forbes._
Referring, most probably, to the ordeal by fire.
COBLE, KOBIL, _s._
1. A small boat, a yawl, S.
A. S. _couple_, navicula.
_Wyntown._
2. A larger kind of fishing boat, S.
3. _Malt coble_, a place for steeping malt, in order to brewing, S.
Germ. _kubel_, a vat or tub.
_To_ COBLE, _v. a._ To steep malt.
_Fountainhall._
COBWORM, _s._ The larva of the c.o.c.k-chaffer, Scarabaeus melolontha.
_Statist. Acc._
c.o.c.k, _s._ The mark for which _curlers_ play, S.
_Burns._
c.o.c.k, _s._ A cap, a head-dress, S. B.
_Ross._
c.o.c.k AND PAIL, A spigot and faucet, S.
c.o.c.kALAN, _s._ A comic or ludicrous representation.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Fr. _coq a lane_, a libel, a pasquin, a satire.
c.o.c.kANDY, _s._ The Puffin, Alca arctica, Linn. S. _Tommy-noddy_, Orkn.
_Sibbald._
c.o.c.kERDEHOY. _To ride c.o.c.kerdehoy_, to sit on the shoulders of another, in imitation of riding on horseback, S. B.
Fr. _coquardeau_, a proud fool.
c.o.c.kERNONNY, _s._ The gathering of a young womans hair, when it is wrapt up in a band or fillet, commonly called a _snood_, S.
_Ramsay._
Teut. _koker_, a case, and _nonne_, a nun, q. such a sheath for fixing the hair as the nuns were wont to use.
c.o.c.kERSUM, _adj._ Unsteady in position, threatening to fall or tumble over, S.
Fr. _coquarde_, a cap, worn proudly on the one side.
c.o.c.kY, _adj._ Vain, affecting airs of importance, S. B. from the E. v.
_to c.o.c.k_.
_Ross._