▪ I. † co1, coe Obs.
Also ko, koo, keo, coo.
[ME. midland form, answering to northern ka, kae = Da. kaa, ON. *ká, *kǫ́, from *káha: cf. chough.]
Jackdaw. Cf. caddow1.
| c 1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. 145 La chouwe, a co-brid [Camb. MS. the co]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 84 Coo byrde, or schowhe, Monedula. Ibid. 280 Koo bryd, or schowghe. 14.. Voc. Harl. MS. 1587 Ibid. 84 Monedula, coo. a 1528 Skelton P. Sparowe 466 We may not well forgo The countrynge of the coe. 1530 Palsgr. 237/1 Koo, a byrde. |
▪ II. † co2 Obs. Cant.
(See quots.)
| 1561 J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 5 A Kitchin Co is called an ydle runagate Boy. 1567 Harman Caveat 76 A Kynchen Co is a young boye..that when he groweth vnto yeres, he is better to hang then to drawe forth. 1834 Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v. (1878) 183 Doxies..and their coes. |
▪ III. co
dial. form of come v.