cockaigne
/kɒˈkeɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A land of plenty, luxury, and idleness.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: lotus land, land of milk and honey"
- "In Cockaigne, the Land of Plenty, people never argued. Instead, they partied, they danced, they drank, and they slept around."
Etymology
From Old French cocagne, of obscure origin, but the many references to sweet delicacies in the 13th century poem that is the first record of the word suggest it may have come from a Germanic word for a cake, probably the ancestor of the modern German Kuchen. See also Proto-Germanic *kōkô. May also relate to or be influenced by Old Irish cucainn (“food ration, sweet pie”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French