英和和英

発音

• IPA: /kɒf/

動詞

coff (third-person singular simple present coffs, present participle coffing, simple past and past participle coffed or coft)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To buy, purchase.
   • 1904, Robert Ford, Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories‎:

     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;

語源 2

See cough

発音

• IPA: /kɒf/, /kɔf/

動詞

coff (third-person singular simple present coffs, present participle coffing, simple past and past participle coffed)

1. Eye dialect spelling of cough.
   • 1903, Josiah Marshall, “Melissy and tha chillens”, in W.H. Emerson, editor, Tha Ole Watah Mill and Melissy And Tha Chillens, page 111:

     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

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