Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fine fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic A fine fellow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.
Etymologies
- From Old French baud ("bold, gay") fine + cock ("bird") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So 't is a Fool must die and sing no more, and there's the pity on't for I.do love a song, I.- being a companionable soul and jovial withal, aye, a very bawcock of a boy, I. To-morrow Red Gui doth hale ye to his Castle o 'the Rock, there to die all five for his good pleasure, as is very fitting and proper, so be merry whiles ye may.”
“Good bawcock, bate thy rage! use lenity, sweet chuck”
“Good Shakespearean word, bawcock: euphonious, too --”
“Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!”
“The figures full in vim and vigor on the square turned out to be the bawcock of Liangshan Mountain who once rescued Song Jiang from execution ground!”
“Why, that's my bawcock; what? has't fmutch'dthynofe?”
“We're a-going to make you fast, my bawcock, and don't make no mistake.”
“A hangman so kindly o 'soul, so merry o' heart, alack, so free, so gay, so merry -- forsooth a very wanton, waggish, jovial bawcock-lad -- ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bawcock’.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Fellowship
A list where words can mingle with their fellows. Feel free to add any fellas and fellers.
fellow, fellowship, bedfellow, strange bedfellows, Robin Goodfellow, fellow-traveler, research fellow, Odd Fellows, Oddfellows, oddfellows, Oddfellows Hall, The Order of Patr... and 41 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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near and dear words
epi- opi- where it is at; also connected virtually or otherwise
epitome, epiphany, episcopal, opisthobranch, opisthognathous, oblast, duopsony, opsonin, epistemolgy, epistle, epidote, epidermis and 44 more...
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But Shakespeare's magic could not cop...
My favourite words from Shakespeare
pomander, bawcock, dulcet, fleshment, fustian, aierie, manikin, minikin, assay, noddle, perforce, pother and 35 more...
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