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Definition: Cockaigne |
CockaigneNoun1. (Medieval legend) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cockaigne" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
"Cockaigne" is a common misspelling or typo for: Cocaine, Cocking. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cockaigne (Land of). An imaginary land of idleness and luxury. The subject of a burlesque, probably "the earliest specimen of English poetry which we possess." London is generally so called, but Boileau applies the phrase to Paris. (See page 270, col. 2, Cockney ) Allied to the German, kuchen, a cake. Scotland is called the "land of cakes" there is the old French word cocaigne, abundance. Compare Latin coquo, to cook, coquinaria, coquina, etc. Ellis, in his Specimens of Early English Poets (i. 83-95), has printed at length an old French poem called "The Land of Cockaign" (thirteenth century) where "the houses were made of barley sugar and cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "Cockaigne" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cockaigne" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cockaigne | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Cockaigne"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Schlaraffenland (land of milk and honey). (various references) | |
Italian | Cuccagna (good time). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockaignecay.(various references) | |
Romanian | Þara Imaginarã Unde Curge Lapte şi Miere, Þara De Basm. (various references) | |
Russian | Лондон и его окрестности (land of Cockaigne). (various references) | |
Turkish | Tembellik Diyarı (Cockayne), Rahatlık Ve Huzur Diyarı (Cockayne). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coquaigne. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-k-n-o" | |
-2 letters: cocaine, cocking, coinage, oceanic. | |
-3 letters: aeonic, agonic, caking, cocain, cognac, coigne, coking, incage. | |
-4 letters: acing, acock, agone, canoe, coign, conga, conge, conic, eikon, eking, enoki, gecko, genic, genoa, gonia, incog, kiang, koine, oaken, ocean. | |
-5 letters: acne, aeon, agin, agio, agon, akin, cage, cain, cake, cane, ceca, ciao, cine, cion, coca, coin, coke, cone, coni. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: peacocking. | |
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