cockernony

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noun

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

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Meanings

nouncockernony (plural cockernonies)

plural cockernonies

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

    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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    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.

    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
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APA

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“cockernony.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockernony. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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