coit
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of coit
C20: perhaps a variant and special use of quoit , referring to roundness
Example Sentences
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Aw tell'd him he'd made a fooil on me, an' aw consider'd mysen dropt on, but noa moor nor he wor wi' havin' to leave th' coit.
From Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings by Hartley, John
As sooin as he coom near th' coit he could hear him snoaring away ommost as laad as a trombone.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
Similar wording at vii 7 'ipse uides certe glacie concrescere Pontum', Tr II 196 'maris astricto quae coit unda gelu', and Tr III x 37.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
That garment was always known after as "the hallelujah coit."
From Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow by Jewell, F.
I cried, "shoo's my mother:" ��� An' I doffed my cap an' my coit.
From Songs of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William
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