Cockaigne

English

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne, 1567

Alternative forms

• Cocagne
• Cocaigne
• Cockayne

Etymology

From Old French Cocaigne, of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: cocaine

Proper noun

Cockaigne

1. (mediaeval folklore) A land of plenty, luxury and idleness.

   Synonyms: land of plenty, lubberland

   Coordinate term: Arcadia

   Hypernym: utopia

   • 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 1, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 3:

     In Cockaigne, the Land of Plenty, people never argued. Instead, they partied, they danced, they drank, and they slept around.

Translations

mythical land

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Luilekkerland (nl) n
• Finnish: Laiskurila
• French: cocagne (fr) f, pays de cocagne (fr) m
• German: Schlaraffenland (de) n
• Italian: cuccagna (it) f, paese della cuccagna m
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• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: Cucanha f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: Dembelija
• Spanish: país de Cucaña m
• Swedish: schlaraffen­land n

Further reading

• Cockaigne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia