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cooth, coothie, coothy, coudiness, couth, couthie, couthieness, couthiness, couthy, cuthy, selcouth, silcouth,
couth [kuθ, ˈkʌud]
adj. Of people: agreeable, affable, sociable, friendly, soft, flabby. Of places and things: comfortable, snug, neat.
n. Kindness.
couthie [ˈkuθi, ˈkʌudi]
adj. Of people or their qualities: agreeable, sociable, friendly, sympathetic. Of things or places: comfortable, snug, neat. Pleasant, agreeable.
Compounds and phrases etc.
couthiness: Pleasantness, familiarity, kindness, facetiousness.
selcouth: arch. Strange, rare, unusual, odd.
caive, cave, co, co$, co$e, coave, coe, cove, cove$d, coved, kaive, kave, kev, ko, koave, kov, kove,
cove [koːv]
also contracted form co' [koː]
n. A cave or cavern. A recess in a wall. A worn out ledge or hag on a river-bank.
v. To hollow or scoop out the soil especially when a river hollows out its banks.
pt. pp. coved
covenant, covenanter, covenenter, coveynanter,
covenant [ˈkɔvənantər]
n. An agreement.
Compounds and phrases etc.
covenanter: A subscriber or adherent of the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643.
covet [ˈkʌvət]
v. To desire to have something.
Compounds and phrases etc.
covetous: Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else.
covetousness: The desire to possess something belonging to someone else.
covin, covine,
covin [ˈkoːvɪn triː]
n. A compact or agreement, a plot.
couan, couaner, cowan, cowaner,
cowan [ˈkʌuən]
also cowaner
n. A mason who builds dry-stone dikes and walls. In freemasonry: one who is outside the brotherhood. Used contemptuously for an unskilled or uninitiated person, an amateur, a bungler.
coud, couder, coudie, coudle, coudy, cowd, cowder, cowdie, cowdlan, cowdle, cowdlin, cowdy,
cowd [WC. kʌud]
also cowdy
v. To float slowly in water and rock gently with the motion of slight waves.
cowdle
v. To bob up and down on the waves.
Compounds and phrases etc.
cowder: A boat that sails pleasantly.
Coodenknowes, Coudenknowes, Cowdenknowes,
Cowdenknowes [kʌudənˈ(k)nʌuz]
pn. Cowdenknowes (Borders)
Coldingham, Cowdenium, Cowdenyam, cowdinham, Cowdnam, Cowjum,
Cowdinham [ˈkʌud(ə)njəm, ˈkʌud(ə)ŋgəm, ˈkʌud(ə)n(h)əm]
pn. Coldingham (Borders).
cow, cowe,
cowe [kʌu]
n. A hobgoblin, an object of terror.
v. To upbraid, to rate, to scold an equal, or superior. To rebuke.
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