ˈcoal-hood, -hoodie
Also 7 cole-hooding, 9 cole-hood, -head, coaly-hood.
[f. coal + hood, in reference to its black head.]
A local name of the Blackcap and Coal-tit; sometimes applied also to other birds: see quots.
| 1684 Sibbald Scotia Illust. 22 (Jam.) Junco, avis capite nigro, cole-hooding dicta. 1818 Hogg Brownie o' Bodsbeck I. 208 (Jam.) Wae's me..that ever I suld see the colehood take the laverock's place. 1825–79 Jamieson, Coal-hoodie, the Black-headed Bunting, Mearns. 1847–78 Halliwell, Coal-hood, a bullfinch. West. 1885 Swainson Provinc. Names Birds 24 Coal hoodie (North Riding), the Blackcap. Ibid. 33 Coal or Coaly hood (Scotland), the Cole Titmouse. |