cockernony

A tartan screen, and once a year a new cockernony from Paris, should serve a countess.

Redgauntlet 2008

Scott was accepted in spite of the idiom which he sometimes employed, and not because of it, and one can only laugh at the fancy presented to the mind by the picture of an English or a foreign reader who for the first time found himself confronted by Mrs. Bartlemy Saddletree's query to her maid: 'What gart ye busk your cockernony that gait?'

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

If it be even so, in a short time 'there will be news o' thae craws, 'as Mrs. Alison Wilson says of Jenny Blane's' unco cockernony 'in the

Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854

Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

If it be even so, in a short time 'there will be news o' thae craws, 'as Mrs. Alison Wilson says of Jenny Blane's' unco cockernony 'in the' Tales of my Landlord. '

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

But I doubt the daughter's a silly thing -- an unco cockernony she had busked on her head at the kirk last

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

A tartan screen, and once a year a new cockernony from Paris, should serve a countess.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

But I doubt the daughter's a silly thing -- an unco cockernony she had busked on her head at the kirk last

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

Jean maun baith sing her psalms and busk her cockernony the gate the gudeman likes, and nae ither gate; for he’s maister and mair at hame, I can tell ye, Mr. Balderstone.”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and a bonny lass will find favour wi’ judge and jury, when they would strap up a grewsome carle like me for the fifteenth part of a flea’s hide and tallow, d — n them.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007