coff

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To buy, purchase. Scotland,transitive
    — I got a little manikin, I set him on my thoomiken; I saddled him, I bridled him, I sent him to the tooniken: I coffed a pair o' garters to tie his little hosiken;
  2. Eye dialect spelling of cough. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — that mothah as often as fambly prayers were said mawnins as the years went by, would wrap her nice, clean tow apron about her boy, as she coffed and choked and pressed her baby to her soah side

词形变化

coffs present,singular,third-person coffing participle,present coffed participle,past coffed past coft participle,past coft past coffs present,singular,third-person coffing participle,present coffed participle,past coffed past

词源

词源 1
Attested from the 15th century. Likely from Scots coft, or from Middle Dutch or other Germanic cofte. Compare German kaufen.
词源 2
See cough
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