Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a fool.

1550		Udall Ralph Roister Doister III iii: Ye are [...] Such a Lilburn, such a hobil, such a lobcock.
1567		R. Edwards Damon and Pithias (1571) Fii: In faith ere you go, I wyll make you a lobbe cocke.
1576		U. Fulwell Art of Flattery 8th dialogue 43: Imploy the Court with dillygence / in preference of the prince: / What profit growes, and favour springs / though mumbling lobcock wince.
1595		‘W.S.’ Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine III iv: You master sausebox, lobcock, cockscomb, you slopsauce, lickfingers, will you not heare?
1609		ballad in Wardroper (1969) 164: Let lobcock leave his wife at home / With lusty Jinkin, that clownish groom.
1611		R. Cotgrave Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Richereau, a wealthie chuffe, rich lobcocke, well-lined boore.
1618		Owles almanacke 50: Horses, will bee head-strong as vnnurtured Lobcockes.
1632		P. Hausted The rivall friends n.p.: You great lobcocke you.
1641–74		‘The Merry Country Maid’s Answer’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 341: The space of half an hour this Lobcock he did prate.
1653		Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 103: The bunsellers or cake-makers [...] did injure them most outrageously, calling them [...] ninny lobcocks.
1661		The May-poles motto [ballad] 1: There's ne’re a Drunkard in all the Town, / Nor swearing Courtier, nor base Clown, / Nor swaggering Lobcock, mincing Quean, / Nor Popish Clerk, nor Priest, nor Dean.
1671		J. Caryl Sir Salomon 41: I am none of those heavy Lobcocks, that are good for nothing but to hang at the tail of a Coach.
1680		Head Eng. Rogue IV 119: This Lobcock (who lookt like one who never was nor ever would be good for anything).
1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 557: The forlorn lobcocks soon showed him their backs.
1700		‘Two to One’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 173: But this is still against all Sence, / Which evermore hath vex’d us, / That ev’ry Lobcock hath his Wench, / And we but one betwixt us.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: Lobock a heavy, dull Fellow.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1838		W. Holloway Dict. of Provincialisms 103/1: Lobcock, Lubbock, [...] A Lout.
1850		E.V. Kenealy Goethe: a New Pantomime 192: Lobcock, loon, slabberdegullion!
1867		W.H. Smyth Sailor’s Word-Bk (1991) 451: Lob-Cock. A lubber.

2. (also lobprick) a large, flaccid penis; thus attrib. lobcock, flaccid, limp.

[1606		Wily Beguiled 15: churms: Since when? wil.: Why since you were bumbasted, that your lubberly legges would not carrie your lobcocke bodie].
1682		‘Satire’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 82: ’Twas not done like cavalero / To tantalize her with your lobcock tarse.
1741		‘Capt. Samuel Cock’ Voyage to Lethe n.p.: Subscribers Names [...] Lord Lobcock 150 ditto.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 64: Chiffe, f. The penis, when lacking power; ‘a lob-prick’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 242: ‘Could it be what they tell me - that, my dear Mister Glyde, your cock’s a lobcock? ’.

3. a (hypocritical) puritan.

1706

N. Ward Poems on Divers Subjects 100: But the sterm Lobcocks in a Gang appeared, / And with their awful Frowns, and woful Threats, / Frighted the Female Sinner into Fits: [...] How many times she’d sin’d, and what he said, / To coax her to resign her Maidenhead? / Whether the Gem upon a Bed was lost, Or standing with her Rump against a Post?

4. a penis suffering from penile strabismus.

1980

Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 194: A man who has chordee (a painful bent condition of the penis) is said to […] be hock-pintled or hock-pointed or to have a lobcock.