An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

COCK, s. The mark for which curlers play, S.
Burns.

COCK, s. A cap, a head-dress, S. B.
Ross.

COCK AND PAIL, A spigot and faucet, S.

COCKALAN, s. A comic or ludicrous representation.
Acts Ja. VI.

Fr. coq à l'âne, a libel, a pasquin, a satire.

COCKANDY, s. The Puffin, Alca arctica, Linn. S. Tommy-noddy, Orkn.
Sibbald.

COCKERDEHOY. To ride cockerdehoy, to sit on the shoulders of another, in imitation of riding on horseback, S. B.

Fr. coquardeau, a proud fool.

COCKERNONNY, s. The gathering of a young woman's hair, when it is wrapt up in a band or fillet, commonly called a snood, S.
Ramsay.

Teut. koker, a case, and nonne, a nun, q. such a sheath for fixing the hair as the nuns were wont to use.