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 ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 29 CoUop, or Collnp, a slice of any meat, especially a rasher of bacon. Occurs in Job xv. 27: 'And maketh collops of fat on his flanks*' Also see Dunbar's Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins : With can and collop^ caup and quart, In surfeit and excess.* CoUop Monday, the day before Shrove Tuesday, here called Fastens Tuesday. On this day ege;8 and slices of bacon form the staple dish. Sometimes children ^ul and beg for coUopa, Combs (pronounced cunis), sprouts or husks from malt Come thank. See Com thank. Commydick, a clay marble somewhat despised by the boys ; no doubt the same as the commaney of Master Bardell. Connywest, adj, sheep's-eyed ; sidelong ; shy, <&c. ; used also when a person squints a little, adv. slily. * He*s a connywest sort on a chap — ^hasn't a word for nobody.' Perhaps the word is cannywest, for canny hinny in some parts means a sly person. Considered, used peculiarly for resolved, determined, concluded, &c. ' I have considered to take the place ; ' ' I have considered to do as you wished me.* ; Cooil, adJ, cool, or cold. The verb to cool is ked (which see). Co-operation, a word used by mistake for ' corporation.' For many years * co-operative stores ' have been familiar to this neighbourhood, but Huddersfield has only been incorporated a short time. The word 'corporation* is therefore comparatively new, and the well-known co-operation does duty for it. Certainly a worse mistake might be made. Cop, to catch, or detect. < Au copt him doin' it.' A cricket-ball is copt ; so is a bird if hit with a stone. ' AuVe gotton copt £ur i* t^ face.* Cop, or Coppin, the yam which is spun on to the spindle. Cope, used sometimes when a person offers or answers a challenge in wrestling, fighting, &c., and is equivalent to * 111 try what I can do with thee.' Corkey, half-seas over. In some parts of England this word means Com. To carry com. * He cannot carry com ' is said of one who has »)t above his business, or who misbehaves when elevated by good fortune. Cornish, t. e, cornice ; the mantelshelf is so called. Cote (pronounced coit), a pigeon-house ; a pig-^ty : which latter is caUed a pigcoit.
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