cockernony
cockernony noun: the bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
Noun
cockernony (plural cockernonies)
- 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...
- And so I will; for here are rosy partners.
Ribbon’d and cockernonied*, by my faith!
Like very queens.
Coil of hair on the top of the head.1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1.
Forms of cockernony
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Questions about cockernony
- What does cockernony mean?
- Cockernony means the bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
- What part of speech is cockernony?
- Cockernony is a noun.
- What is the plural of cockernony?
- The plural of cockernony is cockernonies.
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