Meaning of cockernony | Babel Free

Definitions

The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.

Scotland, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1. 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.”

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