pillicock
nounEtymology From Middle English pilkoc, equivalent to an uncertain first element + 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”), regional Norwegian pill (“a penis”), and Swedish pillesnopp (“wiener, (small) penis”).
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Archaic A penis.
- Al þus eld me for-dede... Y ne mai no more of loue done,a. 1325, "Elde" in the Kildare Poems
- Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene xi]:
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- Edgar, riffing on the sound of the word ‘pelican’, jumps to an old nursery rhyme which starts with the word ‘Pillicock’. He omits the second line, favouring gibberish instead—or a hunting cry? The full couplet is: Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill If he's not gone, he sits there still.2013, Nick Buchanan, What Happens in Shakespeare's, King Lear, page 248:
- A pillicocke, a darling, or a wanton, or a minion.1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes: