lobcock Now dial.
(ˈlɒbkɒk)
[f. lob n.1 + cock.]
A country bumpkin; a clown, lout, boor; a heavy dull creature; a blundering fool.
| a 1553 Udall Roister D. iii. iii. (Arb.) 44 Ye are..Such a lilburne, such a hoball, such a lobcocke. 1594 Nashe Unfort. Trav. 76 Seneca and Lucan were lobcockes to choose that death. 1611 Cotgr., Richereau, a wealthie chuffe, rich lobcocke, well-lined boore. 1694 Motteux Rabelais v. xix. (1737) 83 We are a silly sort of Grout⁓headed Lobcocks. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Lobcock, a heavy, dull Fellow. 1710–11 Swift Lett. (1767) III. 135 Again at the lobby, like a lobcock, of the house of commons, about your Irish yarn. 1719 D'Urfey Pills IV. 171 Ev'ry Lobcock hath his Wench. 1875 Lancash. Gloss., Lobcock, a great, idle, young person. 1895 E. Anglia Gloss., Lobcock, Lubbock, a lout, a lubber. |
| attrib. and appos. 1577 Breton Wks. Young Wit (L.), I now must leave you all, alas, And live with some old lobcock ass! 1577–82 ― Flourish Fancie (Grosart) 15/2 The lobcoke Lust. 1606 Wily Beguiled (1623) C, Your lubberly legges would not carry your lobcocke body. |
Hence
† lobcocked a., loutish, boorish.
| 1606 Wily Beguiled (1623) G, Such a great, long, large, lobcokt, loseld Lurden. |