or pillock or pilicock, subs. (venery).—1.  The penis: see PRICK. Hence PILLICOCK-HILL = the female pudendum. Also (BURNS and JAMIESON) PILLIE.

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  [?].  Reliquiæ Antiquæ, ii. 211.

        Y ne mai no more of love done,
Mi PILKOC pisseth on mi schone.

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  1539.  LYNDSAY, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, l. 4419. Me think, my PILLOK will nocht ly doun.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes. Dolcemelle … Also taken for a mans PILICOCK.

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  1605.  SHAKESPEARE, King Lear, iii. 4. Edg. PILLICOCK sat on Pillicock-hill.

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Turelurean and Vitault, a PILLICOCK, a man’s yarde.

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  1653.  URQUHART, Rabelais, I. xi. Very pleasantly would pass their time in taking you know what between their fingers and dandling it…. One of them would call it her PILLICOCK, her fiddle-diddle, her staff of love, &c.

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Song. When PILLICOCK came to his lady’s toe.

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  d. 1796.  BURNS, The Merry Muses, ‘Here’s His Health in Water.’

        He followed me baith out and in,
  Wi’ a stiff stanin’ PILLIE.

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  1879.  DAVENPORT ADAMS, Shakespeare’s Works [Howard ed., p. 1216]. Note on PILLICOCK … Lear’s mention of his pelican daughters suggests this word—a cant term of familiar licentiousness—to Edgar.

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  2.  (obscure).—An endearment.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, 382. A prime-cocke, a PILLICOCKE, a darlin, a beloved lad.

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Vitault. A great toole, or one that has a good toole, also a flattering word for a young boy like our my pretty PILLICOCKE.

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  1653.  URQUHART, Rabelais, I. xli. By my faith, saith Ponocrates, I cannot tell, my PILLICOCK, but thou art more worth than gold.

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