Nodcock, subs. (old). - A simpleton: see Buffle and Cabbagehead.
Site: Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comarative of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for more than Three Hundred Years
By John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley Published 1902, p 59
shalimar commented on the word nodcock
Nodcock, subs. (old). - A simpleton: see Buffle and Cabbagehead.
Site:
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comarative of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for more than Three Hundred Years
By John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley
Published 1902, p 59
Jul 6, 2008
shalimar commented on the word poplolly
On page 252 of Suzanna Enoch's After the Kiss, she states that the word meant whore.
Jul 6, 2008