An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 174

Dan. _glunk_, the guggling of a narrow-mouthed pot or strait-necked bottle when it is emptying; Sw. _klunk-a_, to guggle.

CLUNKERS, _s. pl._ Dirt hardened in clots, so as to render a road, pavement, or floor unequal, S.

Germ. _clunkern_, a knot or clod of dirt.

CLUTE, _s._ The half of the hoof of any cloven-footed animal, S.

_Ramsay._

Germ. _cluft_, fissura, or A. S. _cleofed_, fissus.

CLUTTERING, _part. pr._ Doing any piece of business in an awkward and dirty way, S. B.

Teut. _kleuter-en_, tuditare.

COALS, _To bring over the coals_, to bring to a severe reckoning, S.

_Forbes._

Referring, most probably, to the ordeal by fire.

COBLE, KOBIL, _s._

1. A small boat, a yawl, S.

A. S. _couple_, navicula.

_Wyntown._

2. A larger kind of fis.h.i.+ng boat, S.

3. _Malt coble_, a place for steeping malt, in order to brewing, S.

Germ. _kubel_, a vat or tub.

_To_ COBLE, _v. a._ To steep malt.

_Fountainhall._

COBWORM, _s._ The larva of the c.o.c.k-chaffer, Scarabaeus melolontha.

_Statist. Acc._

c.o.c.k, _s._ The mark for which _curlers_ play, S.

_Burns._

c.o.c.k, _s._ A cap, a head-dress, S. B.

_Ross._

c.o.c.k AND PAIL, A spigot and faucet, S.

c.o.c.kALAN, _s._ A comic or ludicrous representation.

_Acts Ja. VI._

Fr. _coq a l'ane_, a libel, a pasquin, a satire.

c.o.c.kANDY, _s._ The Puffin, Alca arctica, Linn. S. _Tommy-noddy_, Orkn.

_Sibbald._

c.o.c.kERDEHOY. _To ride c.o.c.kerdehoy_, to sit on the shoulders of another, in imitation of riding on horseback, S. B.

Fr. _coquardeau_, a proud fool.

c.o.c.kERNONNY, _s._ The gathering of a young woman's hair, when it is wrapt up in a band or fillet, commonly called a _snood_, S.

_Ramsay._

Teut. _koker_, a case, and _nonne_, a nun, q. such a sheath for fixing the hair as the nuns were wont to use.

c.o.c.kERSUM, _adj._ Unsteady in position, threatening to fall or tumble over, S.

Fr. _coquarde_, a cap, worn proudly on the one side.

c.o.c.kY, _adj._ Vain, affecting airs of importance, S. B. from the E. v.

_to c.o.c.k_.

_Ross._