Word.ws English Dictionary

bawcocks

bawcocks is the plural of bawcock.

Meaning of bawcock

Noun

bawcock (plural bawcocks)

  1. (archaic) A fine fellow.
    • Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage; / Abate thy rage, great duke. / Good bawcock, bate thy rage. Use lenity, sweet chuck.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about bawcocks

What is bawcocks the plural of?
Bawcocks is the plural of bawcock.

Words near bawcocks in the dictionary

  1. bawbee
  2. bawbees
  3. bawble
  4. bawbles
  5. bawcock
  6. bawcocks
  7. Bawcom
  8. bawd
  9. bawded
  10. Bawden
  11. Bawdens

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bawcocks (page history and authors); bawcock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bawcocks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bawcocks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.