Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawcock
Literary usage of Dawcock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"dawcock is the ancient word which the moderns render less elegantly by " jackdaw ;"
and the epithet ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... dawcock sits among the doctors. PTOT., p. 55. And illustrates it by " Corchorus
inter olera." DOSSERS. Panniers, or something of that kind. ..."
3. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"... dawcock sits among the doctors. BAY'S Proverbs, which he illustrates by
Corchorus inter olera. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"dawcock (ie Jack-daw) was an empty-headed noodle. ... 's not gone he sits there
still,' an end : When you, goodman dawcock, lust will be found in King Lear. ..."
5. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"... Like Barclay's 6 ship. From Oxford do skip With colleges and schools, at
Full-loaden with fools. Quid dicis ad hoc, Worshipful Domine dawcock ? Clem. ..."
6. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"119 : ' When you, goodman dawcock, lust for to wend.' 895. Bocardo: ' the name
of the prison in the old north gate of the city of Oxford, pulled down in ..."
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