[?]. Reliq. Antiq., ii. 211. Ye ne may no more of love done, Mi pilcoc pisseth on my schone.
1539. Lyndsay, Thrie Estaitis, l. 4419. Methink my pillock will nocht ly doun.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, Dolcemelle . . . Also taken for a mans pilicock.
1605. Shakspeare, King Lear, iii. iv. Edg. Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Turelurean and Vitault, a pillicock, a man's yarde.
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.
1719. Durfey, Wit and Mirth, Song. When pillicock came to his lady's toe.
d.1796. Burns, Merry Muses . . . He followed me baith out and in, Wi' a stiff standin' pillie.
1879. Davenport Adams, Shakspeare'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.
2. (obs.).—An endearment.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, 382. A prime-cocke, a pillicocke, a darlin, a beloved lad.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict, 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.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, i. xli. By my faith, saith Ponocrates, I cannot tell, my pillicock, but thou art more worth than gold.
Pillory, subs. (old).—1. A baker:
see Trades and Professions.—B.
E. (c.1696).
2. (old): now recognised).—See quot.
c.1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Pillory . . . also a Punishment mostly heretofore for Beggers, now for Perjury, Forgery and suborned Persons.
Pillow-mate, subs. phr. (common).—1.
A wife; and (2) a whore:
see Dutch and Tart.
Pill-pate, subs. (old).—A friar; a
shaveling.
d.1570. Becon, Works, ii. 315. These smeared pill-pates, I would say prelates, first of all accused him, and afterward pronounced the sentence of death upon him.
Pi-man. See Pi, adj.
Pimginnit, subs. (old).—'A large, red, angry Pimple.'—B. E. (c.1696). Cf. Old Saying, 'Nine pimgenets make a pock royal.'
1694. Dunton, Ladies Dict. [Nares]. Is it not a manly exercise to stand licking his lips into rubies, panting his cheeks into cherries, parching his pimginits, carbuncles, and buboes.
Pimp, subs. (common).—1. A pander; a cock-bawd: also pimp-whisking (see quot. 1696). Hence as verb. = to procure.—B. E. (c.1696); Grose (1785).
1638. Ford, Fancies, i. 2. 'Tis a gallant life to be an old lord's pimp-whiskin: but beware of the porter's lodge for carrying tales out of the school.
1681. Dryden, Absolam and Achit., i. 81. But when to sin our biassed nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means, And providently pimps for ill desires.
c.1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Pimp. Ibid. Pimp-whisking, a Top Trader that way; also a little mean-spirited narrow-soul'd Fellow.
d.1742. Bailey, Erasmus, 'The Profane Feast.' Go hang yourself, you Pimp.
1890. Century Dict., s.v. Pimp. This explanation [Skeats] is, however, inadequate; the word is apparently of low slang origin, without any recorded basis.
2. (old).—See quots.
1724-7. Defoe, Tour through Gt. Britain, i. 138. Here they make those faggots . . . used in taverns in London to light their fagots, and are called . . . by the woodmen pimps.
