cowdealeen
Yola edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from unattested Middle English *scodlen, metathesis of Middle English scolden, with unexpected loss of initial s- and an extra syllable.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cowdealeen
- scolding
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- A war cowdealeen wi ooree.
- They were scolding with one another.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32