"billycock" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: billycocks [plural]
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of earlier bully-cocked. Head templates: {{en-noun}} billycock (plural billycocks)
  1. (dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Headwear Synonyms: billy-cock
    Sense id: en-billycock-en-noun-RBX-edn6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "Apparently an alteration of earlier bully-cocked.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, GK Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown:",
          "text": "a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 68:",
          "text": "All this blazed up and showed faces far back, round, pale, smooth, bearded, some with billycock hats [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 56:",
          "text": "the grandmother who, for some unknown reason, was dressed as a man, wearing a billycock and a corked moustache, ridiculous and plump in tight trousers and a red waistcoat [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 372:",
          "text": "the increasing paralysis confined her to this steel trolley, pushed by a gloved attendant dressed in a billycock hat and a long grey dustcoat.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler."
      ],
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        "(dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "billy-cock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "billycock"
}
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  "etymology_text": "Apparently an alteration of earlier bully-cocked.",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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        },
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 372:",
          "text": "the increasing paralysis confined her to this steel trolley, pushed by a gloved attendant dressed in a billycock hat and a long grey dustcoat.",
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}

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