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by cock and pie

by cock and pie phrase: a mild oath.

Phrase

by cock and pie

  1. (archaic) A mild oath.
    • By cocke and pie, you ſhall not chooſe, Sir: come, come.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • By cock a pie and Mous-foot Dent bring's in, / Examples to express forbidden Sin:1655, William Barton, Man's Monitor, or, the Free-school of Virtue; Holding Forth the Duties Required and Sins Forbidden in the Two Tables of the Law, London: W.D. for T. Underhill, unnumbered page...
    Synonyms:
    by cock

Synonyms of by cock and pie

Questions about by cock and pie

What does by cock and pie mean?
By cock and pie means a mild oath.
What part of speech is by cock and pie?
By cock and pie is a phrase.

Words near by cock and pie in the dictionary

  1. By Brook
  2. by chalks
  3. by chance
  4. by Christmas
  5. by cock
  6. by cock and pie
  7. by committee
  8. by common consent
  9. by comparison
  10. by contrast
  11. by crumbs

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