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1888. Puck's Library, May, p. 10. When the chromo first emerged from chaos, the producers of that kind of picture insisted that the goose of the artist was cooked.
Cookey or Cookie. To bet a
cookie, verbal phr. (American).—The
custom of preparing the
cakes still known in Scotland as
cookies was part and parcel of
American life. [The cookey,
like the English pancake on
Shrove Tuesday, and the hot
cross bun on Good Friday, forms
a special old-fashioned dainty at
Christmas-tide and New Year.
From the Dutch kœkje, dim. of
kœk, a cake.]
1870. Bret Harte, Luck of Roaring Camp, p. 227. Don't know what he is! He lost every hoof and hide, I'll bet a cookey!
1872. Lloyd's Weekly, 28 April. 'Probate Court Report.' Might have said she would bet a cookey that the will was in America. (Laughter.)
1888. Detroit Free Press, 31 March. A book has just been published to instruct reporters in the use of proper phrases. We bet a cookey no reporter will ever read it.
Cookeyshine, subs. (old Scots).—An
afternoon meal at which
cookies (q.v.) form a staple dish.
Cf., Tea-fight, Muffin-worry,
etc. (q.v.). [From cookey, a
small cake, + shine (q.v.), an
entertainment.]
1863. C. Reade, Hard Cash, I., 103. Dr. Sampson, loq.: We shall see whether we are on the right system: and if so, we'll dose her with useful society in a more irrashinal forrm; conversaziones, cookeyshines, et cetera. And if we find ourselves on the wrong tack, why then we'll hark back.
Cook-Ruffian, subs. (old).—A bad
or indifferent cook, 'who would
cook the devil in his feathers.'
Cool, adj. (colloquial). - 1. Impertinent;
audacious; calmly impudent.
1870. Figaro, 22 May. It is considered to be cool to take a man's hat with his name written in it, simply because you want to get his autograph.
Cool as a Cucumber, phr. (common).—Without heat; also, metaphorically, calm and composed.
2. (In reference to money; e.g., a cool hundred, thousand, etc.) Commonly expletive; but sometimes used to cover a sum a little above the figure stated.
1750. Fielding, Tom Jones, bk. VIII., ch. xii. Mr. Watson, too, after much variety of luck, rose from the table in some heat, and declared he had lost a cool hundred, and would play no longer.
1771. Smollett, Humphry Clinker, l. 41. I'll bet a cool hundred he swings before Christmas.
1825. Miss Edgeworth, Love and Law, i., 2. Suppose you don't get sixpence costs, and lose your cool hundred by it, still it's a great advantage.
1841, Lytton, Night and Morning, bk. II., ch. x. Borrowed his money under pretence of investing it in the New Grand Anti-Dry-Rot Company; cool hundred—it's only just gone, sir.
1890. Illustrated Bits, 29 March, p. 8, col. 2. I made three thousand last year, but if I have good luck this year I shall make a cool fifty thousand.
3. (Eton College).—See Cool kick and the following.
Verb (Eton College).—To kick hard.
Cool-Crape, subs. (old).—A
shroud, or winding sheet.—Grose.
Cooler, subs. (old).—1. A woman.—Grose
[1785]. For synonyms,
see Petticoat.
1742. Charles Johnson, Highwaymen and Pyrates p. 293. 'Not I,' replied Jones, very readily, 'I neither know nor
