Pillicock

Alternative forms

• pilicock, pillicocke, pelicock, pillycock

Origin

From , equivalent to an uncertain prefix + cock ("a male chicken; slang term for a penis"). Compare the earlier surname Pylcock etc., as well as pillock, , Jutland regional and pillerkok ("a penis"), and regional .

"pillicock, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2006), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Full definition of pillicock

Noun

1. (archaic) A penis.
• "Elde" in the Kildare Poems:Al þus eld me for-dede...
  Y ne mai no more of loue done,
  Mi pilkoc pisseþ on mi schone...
• 1608, William Shakespeare, , Scene xi, ll. 1857 f.:Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.
• 2013, Nick Buchanan, What Happens in Shakespeare's King Lear, p. 248: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.
2. (obsolete, affectionate) A boy or man.
• 1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes:A pillicocke, a darling, or a wanton, or a minion.

Synonyms

• (penis) See
• (darling) See and

Derived terms

• pillicock hill