单词 | cockersome |
释义 | > as lemmasˈcockersome ˈcockersome adj. unsteady, tottering; shaky, unstable. Sc. National Dict. (at Cocker) records the word as still in use in Fife in 1936. ΚΠ 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Cockersum, unsteady in position, threatening to fall or tumble over. 1845 G. Webster Disputed Inheritance III. i. 27 ‘By my troth, I like nae sic cockersome machine,’ replied the Laird, scowling portentously. 1848 T. Guthrie Let. 6 Apr. in Autobiogr. (1875) II. viii. 209 We three, with a boy to row, boated it down the other day to Warwick Castle, a distance of two miles, in the most cockersome thing you ever saw. < as lemmas |
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