dawcock

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English

Noun

dawcock (plural dawcocks)

  1. (obsolete) A jackdaw.
  2. (obsolete) A silly fellow.

References

  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

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