10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKERNONY»
Discover the use of
cockernony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cockernony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The English dialect dictionary
Broken was the bridal bread Owre the bride's cockernony, BRUCE Poems (1813)
65. Edb. Adding another knot to her cockernony, Mom Manstle Wand: (1828) ii.
Rib. A wooer bauld Wha aft had touzed her cockernony 1n days of auld, i'\.
2
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
She had na ither tochcr than her snood cockernony, GALT Enlail (1823) xxxii. Lnk
. Her cockernony snooded up fou sleek, RAMSAY Genllz Shep. (I725) 23, ed.
1783. Lth. Broken was the bridal bread Owre the bride's cockernony, BRUCE ...
3
The Works of Lord Byron
says of Jenny Blane's " unco cockernony " in the Tales of my Landlord.1 In
turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in
a song of Maupertuis ' to a female Laplander " Et tous les lieux Où sont ses yeux,
...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, 1904
4
The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, ...
-ALL the old words that ever I could meet to this air were the following, which
seem to have been an old chorus :— O corn-rigs and rye-rigs, O com-rigs arc
bonnie ; And where'er you meet a bonnie law, Preen up her cockernony. [
Ramsay ...
Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham, 1840
5
The new British Novelist: comprising works by the most ...
The young gudeman was there too, wi' the arnettie-dyed breeks I brought hame
the litt for the ither week ; and Miss Jenny J amphrey o'_the Aiks appeared wi' a
red cockernony that's a stranger to baith you and me, Laird, forbye a' the ...
6
The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life
Let maidens of a silly mind Refuse what maist they're wanting, Sines we for
yielding are design 'd, We chosttly should be granting ; Then I'll comply and marry
Pate, And syne my cockernony lie's free to tousle air or late, Where corn rigs are ...
Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie, 1849
7
Letters and journals, edited by R.E. Prothero
says of Jenny Blane's “ unco cockernony” in the Tales of my Landlord.1 In turning
over Grimm's C owespondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a
song of Maupertuis2 to a female Laplander “ Et tous les lieux Où sont ses yeux, ...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), 1901
But I doubt the daughter's a silly thing — an unco cockernony she had busked on
her head at the kirk last Sunday. I am doubting that there will be news o' a' thae
braws. But my auld een's drawing thegither; — dinna hurry yoursell, my bonny ...
His hair was red as ony rose, His legs were lang and bony ; He had a hoast and
a rubbin'-post, And a buskit cockernony. Hech ! Mon ! A pawkie Duke ! And a
buskit cockernony ; Ye ne'er will ken true Heelantmen Who'll own they hadna ony
.
The young gudeman was there too, wi' the amettie-dyed breeks I brought hame
the litt for the ither week ; and Miss Jenny J amphrey o' the Aiks appeared wi' a
red cockernony that's a stranger to baith you and me, Laird, forbye a' the ...
Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1827
