Good Shakespearean word, bawcock: euphonious, too. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
Why, that's my bawcock; what? has't fmutch'dthynofe?. From Wordnik.com. [Works] Reference
So 't is a Fool must die and sing no more, and there's the pity on't for I.do love a song, I.- being a companionable soul and jovial withal, aye, a very bawcock of a boy, I. To-morrow Red Gui doth hale ye to his Castle o 'the Rock, there to die all five for his good pleasure, as is very fitting and proper, so be merry whiles ye may. From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
"We're a-going to make you fast, my bawcock, and don't make no mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Why, that's my bawcock. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter's Tale] Reference
Why, thats my bawcock. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene II. The Winters Tale] Reference
Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry V] Reference
The kings a bawcock, and a heart of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene I. The Life of King Henry the Fifth] Reference
Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night; or What You Will] Reference
Why, that’s my bawcock. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter’s Tale] Reference
"View him well, bawcock boys!. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Conisby's Vengeance] Reference
The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry the Fifth] Reference
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