Meanings
plural princocks · alternative princox
- archaicattributivedialectalsometimesAn insolent or cheeky young man.
You are a saucy boy […] You are a princox; go: Be quiet, […] I'll make you quiet.
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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]1 more example
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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Origin
From an uncertain first element + cock.
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