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Middle English
Noun
cokenay
- cockney; weakling; sissy
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4207-4208:
[...] And when this Iape is tald another day,
I sal been halde a daf, a cokenay!- And when this trick is told another day,
I shall be considered a fool, a weakling!
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