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codpiece

English

Etymology

From Middle English cod (“scrotum”) +? piece

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?d?pi?s/

Noun

codpiece (plural codpieces)

  1. A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
    • , Act III, Scene III, line 130.
      Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
  2. A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.

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  • merkin

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reechy

English

Etymology

reech +? -y

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??i?t??i/

Adjective

reechy

  1. Smoky, dirty, squalid.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 3
      BORACHIO. Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy painting; sometime like god Bel's priests in the old church-window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
    • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III scene 4
      Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed
      Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
      And let him for a pair of reechy kisses,
      Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,
      Make you to ravel all this matter out
      That I essentially am not in madness
      But mad in craft.
    • 1989 : Tim Smith, On Land and in the Sea, Buds And Spawn
      Lies to rest in difficult care
      For your pleasures to be there, dissolves in a bed of chair
      Reechy institutional man

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