A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Kok, Kock, Koke, varr. of Cok n.1 (cock, cock-crow, weather-cock, spigot). b. transf. Kock (= supreme or leading person) off the north. —c1420 Wynt. viii. 6367.
A gret pestilens … Fell on kokis [C. kokkis] and hennys bath 1517 Selkirk B. Ct. fol. 56 b.
Tua men [to] walk … quhill the kokis of nycht crawin at lauchful tym 1631–2 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 503.
For gilting of the glob, kok and thanis in the Trongait stiple 1668 Rothesay B. Rec. 150.
2 chopein koks, a milk kokb. 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 133.
[The] Earle of Huntly is highly incensed … that any should be employed but himselfe … being kock off the north
