princock

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  1. A coxcomb; a conceited person. Your proud university princox thinkes he is a man of such merit the world cannot sufficiently endow him with preferment. Returne from Parnassus, iii. 2. A caualier of the first feather, a princockes, … all to be frenchified in his souldiour's sute. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 52. And thou, yong Princox, Puppet as thou art, Shalt play no longer thy proud Kingling's Part Vpon so rich a stage. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay.

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  1. Also princox, primecock, etc.; from prim, prime, + cock.
 

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