coff

present singular third person coffs · participle present coffing · participle past coffed · past coffed · participle past coft · past coft

1. ScotlandtransitiveTo buy, purchase.

   I got a little manikin, I set him on my thoomiken; I saddled him, I bridled him, I sent him to the tooniken: I coffed a pair o' garters to tie his little hosiken;

   1904, Robert Ford, Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories

present singular third person coffs · participle present coffing · participle past coffed · past coffed

1. pronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of cough.

   that mothah as often as fambly prayers were said mawnins as the years went by, would wrap her nice, clean tow apron about her boy, as she coffed and choked and pressed her baby to her soah side

   1903, Josiah Marshall, “Melissy and tha chillens”, in W.H. Emerson, editor, Tha Ole Watah Mill and Melissy And Tha Chillens, page 111