Lexicographical Neighbors of Cogie
Literary usage of Cogie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great North of Scotland Railway: A Guide by William Ferguson (1881)
"Oh, wae betide the cogie ! It does mair skaith than a' the ills That happen in
Stra'bogie. She fand him anee at Willie Sharp's, And what the maist did laugh ..."
2. Scottish Song: Its Wealth, Wisdom, and Social Significance by John Stuart Blackie (1889)
"0 wae betide the cogie ! It does mair skaith than a' the ills That happen ...
Yet here's to ilka honest soul Wha'll drink wi' me a cogie ; An' for ilk silly ..."
3. The Illustrated book of Scottish songs: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth (1854)
"Oh, wae betide the cogie ! It does mair skaith than a' the ills That ... Yet here's
to ilka honest soul Wha'll drink wi' me a cogie; And for ilk silly ..."
4. The Bards of Angus and the Mearns: An Anthology of the Counties by Alan Reid (1897)
"Then lat us pray the auld mill wheel May lang gae roun' to grind the meal, That
aulu and young alike may feel There 's wisdom in the cogie. ..."
5. In Praise of Ale, Or, Songs, Ballads, Epigrams, & Anecdotes Relating to Beer by W. T. Marchant (1888)
"Johnny Smith has got a wife Wha scrimps him o' his cogie; But were she mine, ...
sirs, I canna want my cogie, I wadna gi'e my three gir'd cog, ..."
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