Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coxcomb; a conceited person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A coxcomb; a pert boy.
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- noun obsolete A
coxcomb ; apert boy .
Etymologies
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prim + cock
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jamese commented on the word princock
Hmmm...interesting that no one had listed this. It appears several times in the results of a google book search but, near as I can tell, in no modern dictionaries. Definition, by the way, is "a haughty young man" according to my memory.
October 30, 2007
yarb commented on the word princock
O quoth she, ye loue to bee double diligent, or thought peraduenture that I being a lone woman stood in neede of a loue. Bring you me a princockes beardlesse boy (I knowe not
whence hee is, nor whether he would) to call my name in suspense?
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010