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coolth|kuːlθ|
In 6 coulthe, 7 cooth.
[f. cool a. + -th1: cf. warmth.]
1. Coolness. Now arch.
1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Oerfel, coulthe. 1611Cotgr., Froid, cold, cooth; coldnesse. 1781F. Burney Diary I. 379 My father and Mrs. Thrale seated themselves out of doors..for coolth and chat. 1863T. Taylor Pictures in Words xiii, In pleasant dreams Of English coolth and greenery. 1875Parish Sussex Dialect, Coolthe, coolness. ‘I set the window open for coolthe’. 1890Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (ed. 3) 137 He kept on steadily and tried to think how pleasant the coolth was. 1926J. R. R. Tolkien in Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1924 30 The current coolth, which shows signs of losing its facetiousness, and may claim part of the territory of cool. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 120 June's mid-summer, August brings coolth again. 1965E. O'Brien August is Wicked Month ii. 21 She felt the coolth of her thighs and thought it nice to feel her own coolness.
2. A cold (i.e. the malady so named). rare, exc. dial.
1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v. Cooth..‘That child's ketcht a cooth’. 1884Cheshire Gloss., Cooth, cold (malady)..‘I'm so full of cooth and cold’. |