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COCKMALEERIE, -MALEIRIE, n. A name for the cock (Bnff.2, Lnk.3 1937). [′kɔkmə′li:ri]ne.Sc. 1996 Patricia Scott in Sandy Stronach New Wirds: An Anthology of Winning Poems and Stories from the Doric Writing Competitions of 1994 and 1995 42:
Liptons, The Maypole, The Coopie, the Supermercat forerinners hid arrived. The manager still kent aa his customers an raither mynt ye o a cockmaleerie in the fairmyard, impressin the chuckens.Lnl.1 1937:
Oh, she's gaun aboot like cockmaleerie the day — fair prood o' 'ersel!Kcb. 1814 W. Nicholson Poems (1828) 141:
Are ye contenter wi your pens, Than cock-maleirie wi' his hens, While he upon the midden craws?
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