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pizzle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪzl̩/
• pĭz'əl
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language. Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).

Meanings

1. The penis of an animal.
   • Although, if in the lion the position of the pizzle be proper, and that the natural situation, it will be hard to make out their retrocopulation, or their coupling and pissing backward, according to the determination of Aristotle [...]. 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.19:
2. The penis of an animal. ▸ in heraldry
3. The penis of an animal. ▸ the dehydrated meat thereof, as a dog treat
4. A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

Forms

Deriveds

pizzled · pizzle rot · pizzling

Translations (30)

de Ochsenziemer (penis of an animal) · yue 鞭 (penis of an animal) · nan-hbl 牛鞭 (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · yue 牛鞭 (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · cy dwsel (penis of an animal) · sh volujska žila (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · mqy laso (penis of an animal) · nan-hbl 鞭 (penis of an animal) · nn red (penis of an animal) · de Pferdepenis (penis of an animal) · de Ochsenziemer (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · gl vergallo (penis of an animal) · de Penis (penis of an animal) · hu bikacsök (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · de Fiesel (penis of an animal) · de Hengstpenis (penis of an animal) · de Hundepenis (penis of an animal) · de Bullenziemer (penis of an animal) · bg пенис на животно (penis of an animal) · de Ziemer (penis of an animal) · cmn 牛鞭 (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · sh bikovka (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · cmn 鞭 (penis of an animal) · de Tierpenis (penis of an animal) · de Rute (penis of an animal) · hu bikacsök (penis of an animal) · fr nerf de bœuf (baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals) · de Bullenpenis (penis of an animal) · gl verga (penis of an animal) · cy gwialen (penis of an animal)

pizzle en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪzl̩/
• pĭz'əl
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language. Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To beat (with a pizzle).
   • [A] preliminary caucus was held, "a sort of dodge on the sly", a closed door affair, at the Executive mansion, to "settle the hash" of those who might be tender-footed or disposed to bolt, and to pizzle them into arrangements. 1860, State Gazette Appendix: Containing Debates in the House of Representatives of the Eighth Legislature of the State of Texas, volume 4, page 138:
   • Next Morning I went into his Room, and took hold of his Pizzle.―He jump'd out of Bed, and ſnatch'd it from me, and ſwore, he valued his Pizzle as he valued his Life, and would as ſoon loſe an Inch of one as t'other, for he he kept it on Purpoſe to pizzle the Bitch his Wife. 1726, “Vincent Davis, for Murder”, in Select Trials at the Seſſions-House in the Old-Bailey, volume 2, pages 191-192:
   • Master Huber will come ahurtling from the gatehouse to pizzle us with his fat book. 2016, Amar Mehta, Dispossession:

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