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Definition of Pillocks
1. pillock [n] - See also: pillock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillocks
Literary usage of Pillocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... name till they have drunk of the first tide of summer, after which they take
the name of pillocks, and will be found from ten to twelve inches long. ..."
2. Stories of New Jersey by Frank Richard Stockton (1896)
"The Edge-pillocks sold their reservation, had the money invested for them ...
After that, both tribes decided to buy land in Michigan, and the Edge-pillocks ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1810)
"... and pillocks (fry of the oul-fish) as a kind of small whales ; adding that "
the meaner sort of people live on their flesh, such as it is" As a very ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
""The gables of the cottages here were, at this season, hung round with hundreds
of small coal-fish, called pillocks, strung upon spits, and exposed to dry, ..."
5. The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and by Andrew Kippis (1807)
"pillocks.—These are the coal- fish (gadus carbonarius) in tha> second year of
its growth. In size tbey seldom exceed. a ..."
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