[f. COACH sb. In 2 and 3 with a quasi-dimin. suffix.]

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  † 1.  Cochee. An early non-naturalized form of COACH q.v. Obs.

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  2.  Coachee. Some kind of carriage. ? Obs.

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1801.  C. B. Brown, in W. Dunlap, Mem., 167. To hire a coachee to take us to Middletown.

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1809.  Kendall, Trav., I. xii. 134. Two coaches, two phaetons, ten coachees, and three other four-wheeled carriages.

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  3.  Coachee, coachy. A coachman. colloq. [Cf. cabby, bargee; but also Magyar kocsi, Boh. kočí, dial. Ger. kutsche, in this sense.]

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1790.  Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 1.

        Long before we arrived at the jolting stones’ end,
The name of Tom Lamb made the coachee my friend.

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c. 1817.  Hogg, Tales & Sk., III. 296. Laughed at poor coachy’s predicament.

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1864.  Social Sci. Rev., 34. Coachy having lighted his large German pipe.

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1873.  T. Cooper, Paradise Martyrs (1877), 413. The dash Down hill and up, o’ the mail … to coachee’s chirrup.

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