Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffed
Literary usage of Coffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"1 coffed him," for " I beat him," or got ahead of him. L. (2) a male swan.
(3) or COBBLE; a lump of coal. COB, v. (i) to throw. ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"... coffed, factious ! 4th. In reasoning, the word was alleged, the reason weighed,
and if of weight yielded unto willingly; now the word is passed by, ..."
3. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
""Ido filie washin' and ironin'," ses ehe; "hut I'm sick so much that I can't make
enuff to support us ; " and then she coffed a real graveyard coff. ..."
4. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1864)
"... in 1579, that some of the judges «nd their wives take bribes; so that in
effect, says the statute," justice » coffed and sold " (Vol. iii., p., No. 38). ..."
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