pillock

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Definition of pillock

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noun

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang)A stupid or annoying person; a simpleton; a fool.
    “What is it now, you great pillock?”
    “Take your Typhoon up there and swat the annoying mosquito out of the sky by challenging the infantile pillock to a classic World-War-II-era dogfight like a real man, to show them who the real king of European airspace is.”

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Etymology

In the middle of the 16th century, the meaning was "penis". Probably from pillicock (“penis; boy, man”), presumably akin to the slang term dickhead (“inept fool”). Alternatively, from the same basis as pillicock (compare regional Norwegian pill (“penis”)) + the diminutive suffix -ock.

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