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English
Etymology
From an uncertain first element + cock.
Noun
princock (plural princocks)
- (now rare, dialectal, sometimes attributive) An insolent or cheeky young man.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :You are a saucy boy […] You are a princox; go: Be quiet, […] I'll make you quiet.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book III, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Behold its behaviour. It is a prin-cock boy, who, in his schoole, knows not how far one proceeds against all order: study, exercise, custome and practise, are paths to insufficiency: the novices beare all the sway.