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Scots
Etymology
Borrowed from Norn kokkeluri.
Noun
cockaloorie (plural cockaloories)
- (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”).
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