Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.
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- noun archaic A fine
fellow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!
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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.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!
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"Good bawcock, bate thy rage! use lenity, sweet chuck"
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Good Shakespearean word, bawcock: euphonious, too --
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!
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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!
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Why, that's my bawcock; what? has't fmutch'dthynofe?
Works 1795
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"We're a-going to make you fast, my bawcock, and don't make no mistake.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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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 -- "
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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