Coof vs Cood - What's the difference?
coof | cood |
(Scotland) An idiot, or fool.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 212:
*:"Georgie Gleg is odious to me. He always has been. For all his good heart he's a coof and a simp."
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*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Kate Douglas Wiggin, title=Timothy's Quest, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Dere Miss vilder and sermanthy. i herd you say i cood not stay here enny longer and other peeple sed nobuddy wood have me and what you sed about the home but as i do not like homes i am going to run away if its all the same to you. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1780, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But now the supper crowns their simple board, The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food; The sowp their only hawkie does afford, That, 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood : The dame brings forth, in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell; And aft he's prest, and aft he ca's it guid: The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell How t'was a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. }}
As a noun coof
is an idiot, or fool.As a verb cood is
eye dialect of lang=en.coof
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(en noun)cood
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