An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 175

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 175

c.o.c.kIELEEKIE, _s._ Soup made of a _c.o.c.k_ boiled with _leeks_, S.


c.o.c.kIELEERIE, _s._ A term expressive of the sound made by a c.o.c.k in crowing, S.


Teut. _k.o.c.keloer-en_, to cry like a c.o.c.k.


c.o.c.kLAIRD, _s._ A landholder, who himself possesses and cultivates all his estate, a yeoman, S.


_Kelly._


c.o.c.kLE, c.o.kKIL, _s._ A scallop, Fr. _coquille_.


The _Order of the c.o.c.kle_, that of St Michael, the knights of which wore the scallop as their badge.


_Complaynt S._


c.o.c.kROSE, _s._ Any wild poppy with a red flower. _Coprose_, A. Bor.


c.o.c.k-PADDLE, _s._ The Lump, a fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, Linn., _The Paddle_, Orkn.


_Sibbald._


c.o.c.kS. _To cast at the c.o.c.ks_, to waste, to squander, S. from the barbarous custom of throwing for a piece of money at a c.o.c.k tied to a stake.


_Ramsay._


c.o.c.k-STULE, CUKSTULE, _s._


1. The cucking-stool or tumbrell.


_Bur. Lawes._


Teut. _kolcken_, ingurgitare, or _kaecke_, the pillory.


2. This term has accordingly been used, in later times, to denote the pillory, S.


_Ramsay._


COD, _s._ A pillow, S. A. Bor.


_Compl. S._


A. S. _codde_, a bag. Isl. _kodde_, a pillow.


~Codware~, _s._ A pillow-slip, S.


A. S. _waer_, retinaculum, Su. G. _war_, id. from _waeri_, to keep, to cover.


CODBAIT, _s._


1. The Lumbricus marinus, Loth.


2. The straw-worm, ibid.


A. S. _codd_, folliculus.


CODE, _s._ A chrysom.


V. ~Cude~.


_To_ CODLE (corn), _v. a._ To make the grains fly out of the husks by a stroke, S. B. perhaps from _cod_, the pod.


CODROCH, _adj._


1. Rustic, having the manners of the country, Loth. Fife.


_Ferguson._


2. Dirty, slovenly, synon. _hogry-mogry_, Loth.


Ir. _cudar_, the rabble.


COELTS, _s. pl._ Colts.


_Monroe._


_To_ COFF, COFFE, _v. a._ To buy, to purchase, S., most commonly in the pret. _coft_.


V. ~Coup~, _v._


_Shirrefs._


Germ. _kaufte_, bought, from _kauf-en_, Su. G. _koep-a_, to buy.


~Coffe~, ~Cofe~, ~Coife~, A merchant, a hawker; _pedder coffe_, a pedlar.