pillicock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Al þus eld me for-dede... Y ne mai no more of loue done,"
- "Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo."
- "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."
- "A pillicocke, a darling, or a wanton, or a minion."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pilkoc
Usage
Inflected Forms
pillicocks (plural)
pilicock (alternative)
pillicocke (alternative)
pelicock (alternative)
pillycock (alternative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
pillicock hill
Synonyms
penis
boy and man