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cockernonnie

cockernonnie is the alternative form 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...

Forms of cockernonnie

pluralcockernonnies

Questions about cockernonnie

What is cockernonnie the alternative form of?
Cockernonnie is the alternative form of cockernony.

Words near cockernonnie in the dictionary

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

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