coof
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coof
First recorded in 1715–25; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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But hear me, Sir, deil as ye are, Look something to your credit; A coof like him wad stain your name, If it were kent ye did it.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
She has gotten a coof wi’ a claute o’ siller, And broken the heart o’ the barley Miller.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
A lord, no doubt, may be a "birkie" and a "coof," but may not a ploughman be so too?
From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell
She gotten a coof wi' a claut o' siller, And broken the heart o' the barley Miller.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
And Andrew, whase granny is yearning To see him a clerical blade, Was sent to the college for learning, And cam' back a coof, as he gaed.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
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