Cockaigne, Cocagne (kokan)

[Also Cock ayne, etc., in various archaic forms after ME. cockaigne, cokaygne, cockagne, cokayne, cocaigne, etc., In Cokaygne is met and drink Withvte care, bow [anxiety] and swink. Land of Cokaygne, 1. 17 (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall). 2. [In this sense cited also as Cockeney, Cock ney, as in the lines quoted. See cockney.] The land of cockneys; London and its suburbs. A London cockney. - This nickname is more than four hundred years old. For when Hugh Bigot added artificial fortifications to his naturally strong Castle of Bungey in Suffolk, he gave out this rhythme, therein vaunting it for impregnable: "Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I wouldne care for the King of Cockney ." Meaning thereby King Henry the Second, then quietly po e ed London, whilst some other places did resist him. Ray (quoting Camden), Proverbs (2d ed. 1678), p. 321. [Obsolete except in historical use or in literary or humorous allusion.] cockalt (kok'al), n. [Origin uncertain. Cf. cockle2.] 1. A game played with the ankle bones of a sheep in the place of dice.-2. The bone used in playing the game; the astraga lus or ankle-bone, incorrectly called hucklebone. See dib3.