pillicock n.
1. the penis.
in Reliq. Antiq. II 211: Ye ne may no more of love done, Mi pilkoc pisseth on mi schone [F&H]. | ||
Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Dolcemelle, [...] Also taken for a mans pilicock. | ||
King Lear III iv: Pillicock sat on Pillicock Hill. | ||
Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Turelureau. Mon tur. My pillicocke, my prettie knave. | ||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: One of them would call it her pillicock, her fiddle-diddle, her staff of love, her tickle-gizzard, her gentle-titler. | (trans.)||
‘Pillycock’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 87: So bolt upright and ready to fight, / And Pillycock he lay there all Night. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 311: So bolt upright and ready to fight, / And Pillycock he lay there all night. | ||
Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 101: He followed me baith out an’ in, / Wi’ a stiff stanin’ pillie. | ‘Here’s His Health in Water’||
Shakspeare’s Works (Howard) 1216: Note on Pillicock... Lear’s mention of his pelican daughters suggests this word – a cant term of familiar licentiousness – to Edgar [F&H]. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 24: Let us lerricompoop! said Wilhelmina, in a voice thick with lust and marred by Martin’s pillicock, which was tickling her tonsils. | ||
Facetiae Americana 20: Your pillycocks are competent for tickling mouse’s ears. | ‘A French Crisis’ in
2. a term of affection for a young boy.
Worlde of Wordes . | ||
in Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Vitault: m. a flattering word for a young boy, like our, my prettie pillicocke. | ||
Rabelais I xli: By my faith, saith Ponocrates, I cannot tell, my pillicock, but thou art more worth than gold [F&H]. | (trans.)