coof
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coof
First recorded in 1715–25; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Where ance the coggie hirpled fair, And blithesome poortith toomed the loof, There's nae a burnie giglet rare But blaws in ilka jinking coof.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
This waly boy will be nae coof, I think we’ll ca’ him Robin IV.
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
Yon's Melancholy— An' the pipes a-skirlin'— Gangs limp an' droopet, Like a coof at hirlin',— Droopet aye his lang skirts I' the wins unfurlin'; Yon's Melancholy— An' the pipes a-skirlin'!
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb
Gin I'd wed—there's a winnock kept bye; Wi' bodies an' gear i' her loof— Gin ony tak her an' her kye, Hell glunsh at himsel' for a coof!
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy
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