cokenay

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

cokenay

  1. cockney; weakling; sissy
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4207-4208:
      [...] And when this Iape is tald another day,
      I sal been halde a daf, a cokenay!
      [...] And when this trick is told another day,
      I shall be considered a fool, a weakling!

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