cokenay
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cokenay
- 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!
- [...] And when this trick is told another day,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4207-4208:
References
[edit]- “cokenay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.