cockernony
English
editNoun
editcockernony (plural cockernonies)
- (Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
- 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 Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 305:
- 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.
- And so I will; for here are rosy partners.