Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corrupt dialectal form of
cockle .
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Examples
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I wonder where the cuckle-burrs are, and the tick-seed, and the jimson weeds and the puff-balls.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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There ain't a better colt in the country, only he don't show it; sperit's too quiet unless I lay a cuckle bur under his tail.
A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902
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Old man Hagerman has been mowing all the rag-weed and cuckle-burrs along the line of march, and the lawns have had an unusual amount of shaving and sprinkling.
Back Home Eugene Wood 1891
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To my Jewish brothers and sisters do not let this old man cuckle you into believing you are not important.
X17 Online 2010
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-- hadn't been thar but little better'n two year, afore they was as thick all round me, as cuckle-burrs in a colt's tail, a-huntin and a fishin all about me -- and had bilt lanes -- lanes,
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But, now, take the pelikin! if game is a fah 'name fo' him -- aw heh, as the case may be; which that bird -- nine foot f'm tip to tip, the white ones -- use 'to be as common on this riveh as cuckle-burrs in a sheep's tail! "
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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