cockernony

English

Noun

cockernony (plural cockernonies)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
   • 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 305:

     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.

   • 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.