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

COFT, pret. and part. pa. Bought.
V. [Coff].

COG, COAG, COIG, COGUE, s. A hollow wooden vessel of a circular form for holding milk, broth, &c. S.
Watson's Coll.

Germ. kauch, a hollow vessel, C. B. cawg, a bason.

To Cog, Cogue, v. a. To empty into a wooden vessel.
Ramsay.

COG, COGGE, s. A yawl or cockboat.
Wyntown.

Teut. kogghe, celox; Su. G. kogg, navigii genus, apud veteres.

To COGLE, COGGLE, v. a. To cause any thing to move from side to side, so as to seem ready to be overset, S.

Perhaps from cog, a yawl, because this is so easily overset.

Cogglie, adj. Moving from side to side, unsteady as to position, apt to be overset, S. [Cockersum], synon.

COY, adj. Still, quiet.
Lyndsay.