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cushat Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|ˈkʌʃət|
Forms: 1 cúscute, -scote, -sceote, 5 cowscott, -schote, 6 cowschet, kowschot, 6–7 coushot, 7, 9 cowshot, 8 cowshut, 8–9 cooscot, 9 cowscot; 6 cuschet, 8– cushat, 9 dial. cushie, cusha.
[OE. cúscute, -scote, -sceote (wk. fem.) has no cognates in the other Teutonic langs., and its etymology is obscure. The element scote, scute is app. a deriv. of scéotan (weak grade scut-, scot-) to shoot, and may mean ‘shooter, darter’: cf. sceotan in ælfric's Colloquy, glossed tructos ‘trouts’, app. in reference to their rapid darting motion; also cf. OHG. scoȥȥa str. f., shoot (of a plant). For the first part, cú cow offers no likely sense, and Prof. Skeat suggests that we may here have an echo of the bird's call = modern coo: this is doubtful. Others have taken the first part as OE. cúsc chaste, modest, pure; but the rest of the word then remains unexplained.]
The wood-pigeon or ring-dove.
a700Epinal Gloss. 829 Palumbes, cuscutan [Erfurt cuscotae, Corpus cuscote]. c1000Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 260/7 Pudumba, cusceote. 10..Ibid. 286/2 Palumba, cuscote, uel wuduculfre. 14..Ibid. 702/34 Palumbus, cowscott. 1483Cath. Angl. 79 Cowschote, palumbus. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 237 The cowschet [v.r. kowschot] crowdis and pirkis on the rys. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxvii, Some dozens of queests, coushots, ringdoves and wood-culvers. 1788Marshall Yorksh. Gloss., Cooscot, a wood-pigeon. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss., Cowshut, a wild pigeon. 1792Burns Bess & Spinning-wheel iii, On lofty aiks the cushats wail. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. x, He heard the Cushat's murmur hoarse. 1866Cornh. Mag. Aug. 224 The building cushats cooed and cooed.
b. So cushat-dove (Sc. cusha-dow, cushie-doo).
1805Scott Last Minstr. ii. xxxiv, Fair Margaret, through the hazel grove, Flew like the startled cushat-dove. 1886Sidey Mistura Curiosa 103 The Cushie doo That croodles late at e'en. |