dockenn.
/ˈdɒk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈdɑk(ə)n/, Scottish English /ˈdɔk(ə)n/ Scottish and northern dialect.
a. = dock n.1 1.
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red dockeOE
dockc1000
rhubarbc1390
docken1423
patience?a1425
round dock1526
Rumex1565
wild patience1578
bloody dock1597
monk's rhubarb1597
Welsh sorrel1640
butterdock1688
mountain rhapontic1728
mountain sorrel1753
Rheum1753
redshank1810
patience dock1816
fiddle-dock1823
canaigre1868
nettle-docken1891
1423 Kingis Quair cix Als like ȝe bene, as..doken to the fresche dayesye.
1483 Cath. Angl. 103/1 A Dokan, paradilla.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 184 (Jam.) ‘I wo'd be very loth And scant of cloth, To sole my hose with dockans.’ The return of a haughty maid to them that tell her of an unworthy suitor.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 21 Wad ye compare ye'r sell to me, A docken till a tansie?
1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 138 Amang these green dockings.
b. attributive. Of or like a dock-leaf; dock-like.
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1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xliv, in New Monthly Mag. June 208 His great red docken ears.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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