princock
English
Alternative forms
- princox
Etymology
From an uncertain first element + cock.
Noun
princock (plural princocks)
- (now rare, dialectal, sometimes attributive) An insolent or cheeky young man.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.5:
- 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.5: