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The English dialect dictionary
COGGELLY, see Coggly. COGGER, so. th. [ko'ga(r).] A striped snail-shell. Nbp.' It
is a common boyish pastime to hold one of these shells between the last joints of
the bent fingers, and forcibly press the apex against another held in a similar ...
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From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of ...
U.S.: 1843 Hall New Purchase 142 Some carried and fixed tables, pushing and
kicking and jambing at them till they consented to stay fixed and not coggle!
coggly, coagley, coggled, cogglety, cogly, coogley adj Rickety, unsteady, poorly
or ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
(E.E.S.) ; Sus.1 By then you've come back 'twill be coager-time (s.v. By then). 2. A
common kind of cake given to agricultural labourers. Ken., Sun. HOLLOWAY.
COGGELLY, see Coggly. COGGER, sb. Nhp. [ko'ga(r).] A striped snail-shell.
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Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English
[From Irish and Scottish and northern English] EDO; OEDS 1933-1966. coggly
Adjective. Also cogglesome. Occasional in Egmont, infrequent or rare elsewhere;
significantly rural, older; especially less educated. Of people or things, shaky, ...
Coggly. Crooked, from side to side, as of an uneven swing's motion. Walking on
high heels, or sitting in a hay-cart, would be so described. Cotterill. A split pin for
fastening handles on to cranks. Coup Cart [koop]. The common dung- or coal-cart
...
Intimate with. “ Smith is pretty close to the governor and can do something for you
if anyone can.” Not local. coggly, adj. Of irregular shape. “ They used coggly
stones in the wall.” cold day, n.phr. A time not likely to come; “at the Greek
calends.
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The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by ...
COGGLY. In an unsteady position; likely to fall. "Thah's setten that dish ont' taable
varry coggly, it'll tummle if tuh doesn't mind." COIF-SCEEED. Cap-screed, or
border. Coif is never used separately. COIL (chard). Cool. Has exactly the sound
of ...
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A glossary of North country words, with their etymology, and ...
Coggles, round, smooth worn stones ; probably so named from their being coggly
. Coggly, unsteady, moving from side to side, easily overturned. Coke, to cry
peccavi. Ruddiman says, it is the sound which cocks utter, especially when they
are ...
John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett, 1846
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A Glossary of Words County of Chester
L. COGGLE, adj. easily moved, unstable. MACCLESFIELD. See also KEGGLE,
KICKLE, and TICKLE. COGGLE, v. to move with great ease, to be unsteady.
MACCLESFIELD. - COGGLY, adv. easily moved, shaky. Applied to a creaking
post 74 ...
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
[s. Sc. (1785), from Sc. cog, cogue same] COGGLE, v. C—W. int. To shake,
oscillate, or rock, as a (large) unsteady stone to the tread. [Sc. (1754). Cf. CochE
v., COBLE v] COGGLY, a. N—w. Shaky; also, affording unsteady foothold: “A
coggly ...
