Coonagh; friendly, familiar, _great_ (which see):--'These two are very _coonagh_.' (MacCall: Wexford.) Irish _cuaine_, a family.
Coonsoge, a bees' nest. (Cork.) Irish _cuansa_ [coonsa], a hiding-place, with the diminutive _óg_.
Cooramagh; kindly, careful, thoughtful, provident:--'No wonder Mrs. Dunn would look well and happy with such a _cooramagh_ husband.' Irish _curamach_, same meaning.
Coord [_d_ sounded like _th_ in _bathe_], a friendly visit to a neighbour's house. Irish _cuaird_, a visit. Coordeeagh, same meaning. (Munster.)
Cope-curley; to stand on the head and throw the heels over; to turn head over heels. (Ulster.)
Core: work given as a sort of loan to be paid back. { 240} I send a man on _core_ for a day to my neighbour: when next I want a man he will send me one for a day in return. So with horses: two one-horse farmers who work their horses in pairs, borrowing alternately, are said to be in _core_. Very common in Munster. Irish _cobhair_ or _cabhair_ [core or co-ir, 2-syll.] help, support.
Coreeagh; a man who has a great desire to attend funerals--goes to every funeral that he can possibly reach. (Munster.) Same root as last.
Corfuffle; to toss, shake, confuse, mix up. (Derry.)
Correesk; a crane. (Kildare.) Irish _corr_, a bird of the crane kind, and _riasc_ [reesk], a marsh.
C[=o]sher [the _o_ long as in _motion_]; banqueting, feasting. In very old times in Ireland, certain persons went about with news from place to place, and were entertained in the high class houses: this was called _coshering_, and was at one time forbidden by law. In modern times it means simply a friendly visit to a neighbour's house to have a quiet talk. Irish _cóisir_; a banquet, feasting.
Costnent. When a farm labourer has a cottage and garden from his employer, and boards himself, he lives _costnent_. He is paid small wages (called _costnent_ wages) as he has house and plot free. (Derry.)
Cot; a small boat: Irish _cot_. See 'Irish Names of Places,' I. 226, for places deriving their names from _cots_.
Cowlagh; an old ruined house. (Kerry.) Irish _coblach_ [cowlagh].
Coward's blow; a blow given to provoke a boy to fight or else be branded as a coward. { 241}
Cow's lick. When the hair in front over the forehead turns at the roots upward and backward, that is a _cow's lick_, as if a cow had licked it upwards. The idea of a cow licking the hair is very old in Irish literature. In the oldest of all our miscellaneous Irish MSS.--The Book of the Dun Cow--Cuculainn's hair is so thick and smooth that king Laery, who saw him, says:--'I should imagine it is a cow that licked it.'