cockaloorie

Scots

Alternative forms

• cockieloorie, kokkeluri, kokkaloorie
• cockalowrie (Orkney)

Etymology

Borrowed from Norn kokkeluri.

Noun

cockaloorie (plural cockaloories)

1. (Shetland) common daisy (Bellis perennis)
   • 1892, George Stewart, “Mansie Mudjick’s Courtships”, in Shetland Fireside Tales‎^[1], 2nd edition, page 245:

     Lang, bonnie, black hair, sheenin’ just laek a corbie’s wing. Twa bonnie red cheeks, as pure as da under side ’o a cockieloorie.

     Long, beautiful, black hair that shines like a raven’s wings. Also lovely red cheeks, as pure as the underside of a daisy.

   • 1975, T. A. Robertson, “Hjalta”, in The Collected Poems of Vagaland‎^[2]:

     An da mey-flooer cleds da burn-broo
     An growes ita da clift.
     Da kokkilurie covers aa
     Laek da white cloods ower da lift.

     And the May-flower is clothed in dew / And grows in the crevices. / The daisy covers the whole / Like the white clouds of the heavens.

Usage notes

According to the Scottish National Dictionary, piri kokkeluri (“little daisy”) is contrasted with mukkel kokkeluri “oxeye daisy” (lit. “big daisy”).

Descendants

• → English: (Shetland) kokkaloorie