Lobcock, subs. (old).—1. A blockhead. Also adj.
1534. Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 3. Such a calfe, such an asse,
such a blocke ... such a lobcocke.
1557. Breton, Fancy [Grosart (1876), i. a. 15, 2, 37]. The lobcoke
lust, from thriftlesse thick, both bring the in his lap.
1567. Edwards, Damon & Pithias [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), iv. 75].
In faith, ere you go, I will make you a lob-cock.
1575. Gascoigne, Supposes [Hazlitt (1869), Poems, i. 218]. I will
laugh a little at this lobcocke.
1594. Nashe, Unf. Traveller [Grosart (1883–4) v. 157]. Seneca and
Lucan were lobcockes to choose that death.
1606. Wily Beguiled [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 241]. Your
lubberly legs would not carry your lob-cock body.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1719. Durfey, Pills etc., iv. 171. That ev’ry lobcock hath his
wench, And we but one betwixt us.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.