cooanès

Yola

Alternative forms

• cooanes

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːnz/

Noun

cooanès

1. plural of cooan
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:

     An gooude usquebaugh ee-sarith uth in cooanès.

     And good whiskey served out in wooden cans.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94