cullion
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cullion (plural cullions)
- (archaic) Testicle.
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Harison et al., “Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued,” p. 523,
- […] the kings enimies were vanquished, and put to flight, in which flight, the earle of Dowglas, for hast, falling from the crag of an hie mounteine, brake one of his cullions, and was taken, and for his valiantnesse, of the king frankelie and freelie deliuered.
- 1634, Philemon Holland (translator), Natural History (Pliny) of Pliny the Elder, London, Book 28, Chapter 15, p. 334,
- As touching the galls, which by ouermuch riding on horseback be incident to the twist and the inner parts of the thigh, as euery man knoweth full well, which do burne and chaufe the skin in those parts; the fomie slime which a horse yeeldeth, as well from his mouth as his cullions, is soueraigne therefore, if the place be annointed therwith.
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Harison et al., “Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued,” p. 523,
- (archaic) A vile person.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 2,
- Mistake no more; I am not Licio.
- Nor a musician as I seem to be;
- But one that scorn to live in this disguise
- For such a one as leaves a gentleman
- And makes a god of such a cullion.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (play),
- He weares a lords reuenewe on his back,
- And Midas like he iets it in the court,
- With base outlandish cullions at his heeles,
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 2,
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