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Definition of billycock in English: billycocknoun ˈbɪlɪkɒk historical A kind of bowler hat. Example sentencesExamples - One could well imagine an urgent gathering of the ` The Royal & Ancient Order of Sticky Fellows’ with fresh candles in their billycocks, lit and mining tools akimbo; being convened before the Miner in Chief within minutes of my departure.
- In fact, he always wore a greasy old billycock - greasy, I imagine, because of the melted butter seeping down to his collar band.
- Swaggering along in their check suits, gold chains, lumpy rings and billycocks, they were pointed out by name or exploit.
- He points out that the beard and headgear - top hats, billycock hats, or woolen stocking caps - are symbols of senior male status.
- The bowler acquired the nickname of a billycock, after Billy Coke, and if one visits Locks today and asks for a billycock they will know exactly what sort of hat you are referring to.
- The dog-collar seller tips his billycock and disappears, but his luckless companion, having fetched a small black object out of his knapsack, lingers.
- as I looked across the sea of tossing billycocks and rocking bonnets, my work, as I heard them give tongue, not once, but four times… I felt that I had secured Perfect Felicity.
- Slaves wore a hat called a billycock, which was similar to the kind of hat that was worn by the British army.
- He wore a cap of the ‘billycock’ order, and it was in all respects a decentish cap, except that, in front of the brim, for the space of a hand's breadth or so, it was worn limp and greasy.
Origin Mid 19th century: said to be from the name of William Coke, nephew of Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester (1752–1842). |