Definition of "pillicock"
pillicock
noun
plural pillicocks
Quotations
Edgar, riffing on the sound of the word ‘pelican’, jumps to an old nursery rhyme which starts with the word ‘Pillicock’. He omits the second line, favouring gibberish instead—or a hunting cry? The full couplet is:Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hillIf he's not gone, he sits there still.
2013, Nick Buchanan, What Happens in Shakespeare's, King Lear, page 248