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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Cothish

Faint, sickly, ailing. A dog is said to be cothy when he is meek and delicate.
- Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830

Coathy, surly; easily provoked; Norfolk. In Hampshire, rotten, applied to sheep.
- Francis Grose's Glossary of Provincial and Local Words, 1811

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