pillicock
English
Alternative forms
- pilicock, pillicocke, pelicock, pillycock
Etymology
From Middle English pilkoc, equivalent to an uncertain prefix + cock (“a male chicken; slang term for a penis”). Compare the earlier surname Pylcock etc., as well as pillock, Scots pillie (“a penis”), Jutland regional Danish piller and pillerkok (“a penis”), and regional Norwegian pill (“a penis”).[1]
Noun
pillicock (plural pillicocks)
- (archaic) A penis.
- a. 1325, "Elde" in the Kildare Poems:
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Lear, Scene xi, ll. 1857 f.:
- 2013, Nick Buchanan, What Happens in Shakespeare's King Lear, p. 248:
- (obsolete, affectionate) A boy or man.
- 1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes:
- A pillicocke, a darling, or a wanton, or a minion.
- 1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes:
Synonyms
- (penis): See Thesaurus:penis
- (darling): See Thesaurus:boy and man
Derived terms
- pillicock hill
References
- "pillicock, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2006), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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