pizzle

plural pizzles · alternative pizzel · alternative pizzell · alternative pisle

1. The penis of an animal.

   Although, if in the lion the position of the pizzle be proper, and that the natural situation, it will be hard to make out their retrocopulation, or their coupling and pissing backward, according to the determination of Aristotle [...].

   1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.19

   1. in heraldry
   2. the dehydrated meat thereof, as a dog treat
2. A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

present singular third person pizzles · participle present pizzling · participle past pizzled · past pizzled · alternative pizzel · alternative pizzell · alternative pisle

1. raretransitiveTo beat (with a pizzle).

   Master Huber will come ahurtling from the gatehouse to pizzle us with his fat book.

   2016, Amar Mehta, Dispossession

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   Next Morning I went into his Room, and took hold of his Pizzle.―He jump'd out of Bed, and ſnatch'd it from me, and ſwore, he valued his Pizzle as he valued his Life, and would as ſoon loſe an Inch of one as t'other, for he he kept it on Purpoſe to pizzle the Bitch his Wife.

   1726, “Vincent Davis, for Murder”, in Select Trials at the Seſſions-House in the Old-Bailey, volume 2, pages 191-192

   [A] preliminary caucus was held, "a sort of dodge on the sly", a closed door affair, at the Executive mansion, to "settle the hash" of those who might be tender-footed or disposed to bolt, and to pizzle them into arrangements.

   1860, State Gazette Appendix: Containing Debates in the House of Representatives of the Eighth Legislature of the State of Texas, volume 4, page 138