cockaloorie

Scots

Alternative forms

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, 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:
      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”).[1]

Descendants
  • → English: (Shetland) kokkaloorie

References
  1. “cockaloorie, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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