Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Nodgecock
subs. (old).—A simpleton.
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1566–7. W. PAINTER, The Palace of Pleasure, i. E e 5. This poore NODGECOCK contriving the time with sweete and pleasaunt woordes with his dareling Simphorosia.
