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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of coff.
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Examples
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He put it down before his father, coft, spit, opened the windows, stirred the fire, yawned, clapt his hand to his forehead, and suttnly seamed as uneezy as a genlmn could be.
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I painted a flowery glen in the Tyrol (dearie me, but thae flowers cost me a fortune in blue paint), and it was coft for the Chantry
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Ill wad my best buckskins, and they were new coft at Kircudbright fair, its been a chance job after a.
Chapter XXXII 1917
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That coft contentment, peace, and pleasure; [bought]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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'I had coft her a bonny cairriage, wi' as fine a pair as ever ye saw,
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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'My mither coft (_bought_) him agen my hame-comin,' he replied.
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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I wad na gang among them till the search was over to-day; but yesterday I saw yon carle, and coft the boatie frae him for the wee blackamoor and the mule.
A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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I coft him dog cheap at Tunis, when his master, the
A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Aiblins folk'll ken their true freens there; an 'there'll be na mair luve coft and sauld for siller --
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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He put it down before his father, coft, spit, opened the windows, stirred the fire, yawned, clapt his hand to his forehead, and suttnly seamed as uneezy as a genlmn could be.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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