Word of the Day: CORKY-NODDLE

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

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