Third-person singular present tense of coorie; he/she/it crouches, huddles, or snuggles for warmth.
From coorie plus the regular third-person singular -s/-es ending. Shows standard present-tense conjugation for Scottish dialect verbs.
When Scottish folk say someone 'coories intae a corner,' they're describing both a physical action and an emotional state—the language fuses body and feeling in ways modern psychology is only beginning to validate.
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