Obs. In the Promp. Parv. explained as ‘mud, mire, filth.’
But cf. the annexed quots. for cokerynge mete, cokkyrs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 85. Cokyrmete, cenum, lutum. Ibid., 86. Cookerynge mete, carificio [read -fotio].
a. 1483. Liber Niger Edw. IV., in Househ. Ord. (1790), 76. He ought, by the statutes, to have noe fee … but droppinges and spyllinges; but the cokkyrs and the lees.
