Cockaigne

Cockaigne

English

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne, 1567

Alternative forms

• Cocagne
• Cocaigne
• Cockayne

Etymology

from Old French Cocaigne, of obscure origin.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒˈkeɪn/

Proper noun

Cockaigne

1. (mediaeval folklore) A land of plenty, luxury and idleness.

   Synonyms: land of plenty, lubberland

   Coordinate term: Arcadia

   Hypernym: utopia

   • 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 1, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 3:

     In Cockaigne, the Land of Plenty, people never argued. Instead, they partied, they danced, they drank, and they slept around.

Translations

mythical land

Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: Luilekkerland (nl) n Finnish: Laiskurila French: cocagne (fr) f, pays de cocagne (fr) m German: Schlaraffenland (de) n Italian: cuccagna (it) f, paese della cuccagna m

Polish: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: Cucanha f Russian: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Dembelija Spanish: país de Cucaña m Swedish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Cockaigne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

1. “Cockaigne” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.