Word.ws English Dictionary

kokkaloorie

kokkaloorie noun: common daisy (Bellis perennis).

Noun

kokkaloorie (plural kokkaloories)

  1. (Shetland) common daisy (Bellis perennis)
    • I've made you a present, Bella! Do you want to see it? It's a kokkaloorie chain.2012, 8:38 from the start, in Shetland, season 3, episode 6
    • Shetland men aren’t known for their grand romantic gestures (sorry guys) ‒ they might give you a lamb for the freezer and perhaps a kokkaloorie (daisy) from the yard, but 12 red roses and a candlelit dinner, probably not!2020 May 29, Laurie, “Shetland with Laurie’s guide to the best of Shetland fiction”, in Shetland with Laurie, Dancing with the Ferryman by Frankie Valente

Forms of kokkaloorie

pluralkokkaloories

Origin of kokkaloorie

Borrowed from Scots cockaloorie, from Norn kokkeluri.

Questions about kokkaloorie

What does kokkaloorie mean?
Kokkaloorie means common daisy (Bellis perennis).
What part of speech is kokkaloorie?
Kokkaloorie is a noun.
What is the plural of kokkaloorie?
The plural of kokkaloorie is kokkaloories.

Words near kokkaloorie in the dictionary

  1. kokihi
  2. Kokila
  3. Kokilapriya
  4. kokiri
  5. kokis
  6. kokkaloorie
  7. kokkaloories
  8. koklas
  9. koklass
  10. koklasses
  11. kokle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kokkaloorie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kokkaloorie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kokkaloorie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.