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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1643-1653

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Cuckolane, Cuculling, variants of Cokalane (lampoon, lampooning). —1643 Linlithgow Presb. in Scott Fasti I. 300.
Ane vyld and ignominious cuckolane and slanderous ryme 1653 Strathbogie Presb. 242.
Georg Jinkin and John Christie referred from the session of Abercherder, for ryming and cuculling, compeird not

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