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A cockernonnie or cockernonie was an old Scottish women’s hairstyle. It was a gathering up of the hair, after a fashion similar to the modern ''chignon'', and sometimes called a "cock-up". Mr. Kirkton of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups" – of which ''chignons'' were the representative in the mid-19th century – said: :"I have spent all this year preaching against the vanity of women, yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now, with as high a 'cock-up' as any of you all." == Etymology, Cock-Up == "Cock-up" is in common usage as another term for "foul-up" in British English. For example, "The Ministry of Defence's programme to make airworthy the eight Chinook Mk3 helicopters, which it acquired in 2001 for special operations work, has been a gold standard cock-up." BBC quoting Sir Edward Leigh on the failure to timely deliver Chinook helicopters to the military. The contemporary British English usage of "cock-up" likely derives from the nautical usage of the term to describe an arrangement of the yards of a square-rigged vessel in port, and therefore likely predates the cockernonnie derivation suggested above, square-rigged vessels being in use considerably before most of the Scots references quoted here. It is possible the term has two completely unrelated origins; however, contemporary common usage is more likely to derive from the nautical term, which has an explicit association with foul-up, rather than the Scots term. Modern folk etymology has sometimes suggested that "cock-up" refers to a male erection, or to the phrase "cacked up", but this is untrue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cockernonnie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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