Cook-eels

Forby derives this from *coquille*, in allusion to their being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by Cotgrave, who has "*Pain coquillé*, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our stillyard bunne." I have always taken the word to be "coquerells," from the vending of such buns at the barbarous sport of "throwing at the cock" on Shrove Tuesday. The cock is still commonly called a cockerell in E. Anglia. Perhaps Mr. Wodderspoon will say whether the buns of the present day are fashioned in any particular manner, or whether any "the oldest inhabitant" has any reco…