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cockernonies

cockernonies is the plural of cockernony.

Meaning of cockernony

Noun

cockernony (plural cockernonies)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
    • Her mother [...] sat by the fire in the full glory of a grogram gown, lammer beads, and a clean cockernony, whiffing a snug pipe of tobacco, and superintending the affairs of the kitchen.1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for...

Questions about cockernonies

What is cockernonies the plural of?
Cockernonies is the plural of cockernony.

Words near cockernonies in the dictionary

  1. cockermeg
  2. cockermegs
  3. Cockermouth
  4. cockerney
  5. cockerneys
  6. cockernonies
  7. cockernonnie
  8. cockernonnies
  9. cockernony
  10. cockerpoo
  11. cockerpoos

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