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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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COOKERTY, interj. An exclamation in phr. cookerty, cookerty, I, I, I, used in the game of hide-and-seek (Rxb. 1958 Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc. 20; s.Sc. 1975). [Deriv. form from Cook, n., (1).]

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