† guinea-cock Obs.
The male of the guinea-fowl; the guinea-fowl (earlier called turkey-cock).
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 166, I would faine learne the right ordring of their outlandish Birds, called Ginny Cocks, and Turky Cockes...before the yeere of our Lorde .1530. they were not seen with us. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 108 We found in this place..great plentie of partriges, Guiniecocks, and other wilde foules. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner K v, The Ginny-Cocke was first brought out of Numidia, into Italy. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 332 We haue written alreadie of the Ginny or Turky cocks and hens, vpon whom Nature hath bestowed a folding crest. |