
ETYMOLOGY
from corky (flighty, frivolous) + noddle (head)
EXAMPLE
“… She’s no farouchie nor furfluther’d,
No tetherfaced, thrawnmou’t, nor touthert;
Nae corkynoddle runk wi’ crawtaes. …”
From: Dorothea M. Ogilvy’s “Poems“, 1873;
Willie Wabster’s Wooing