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† cock-and-pie Obs.
[Supposed to be orig. cock n.8 and pie, the ordinal of the Roman Catholic Church.]
Used in an asseveration.
1550Crowley Epigr. 469 By cocke and by pye. 1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 251 What though a varlets tale you tell: By cock and pye you do it well. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 316 By cocke and pie, you shall not choose, Sir: come, come. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 142, I know a man that will neuer sweare but by Cocke or Pie, or Mouse⁓foot. I hope you will not say they be oathes. 1821Scott Kenilw. xix, ‘Is he?’ replied the host; ‘ay, by cock and pie is he’. 1854Thackeray Newcomes xi, ‘By cock and pye it is not worth a bender’. |