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"I'll make ye a proper cockernonny," she declared with satisfaction.
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chained_bear commented on the word cockernonny
"She began to separate the hair into three thick strands. 'I'll make ye a proper cockernonny,' she declared with satisfaction. 'I'll no have ye goin' down to your tenants looking like a savage.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 635
January 1, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word cockernonny
The gathering of a young woman's hair, when it is wrapt up in a band or fillet, commonly called a snood. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
May 27, 2011