cock-bawd

English

noun
Definitions
  • (now) A man who runs a brothel; a pimp.

Etymology

Compound from English cock (penis, male domestic chicken, a shock pile of grain, diminutive suffix, male, a roundish heap, rooster) + English bawd.

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bawd

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