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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman..
1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1. And so I will; for here are rosy partners. Ribbon’d and cockernonied*, by my faith! Like very queens. Coil of hair on the top of the head.
Her mother [...] sat by the fire in the full glory of a grogram gown, lammer beads, and a clean cockernony, whiffing a snug pipe of tobacco, and superintending the affairs of the kitchen.
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Cockernony means (Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman..
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1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1. And so I will; for here are rosy partners. Ribbon’d and cockernonied*, by my faith! Like very queens. Coil of hair on the top of the head.
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