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Webster 1913 Edition

Pizzle

Piz′zle

,
Noun.
[Cf. Prov. G.
pissel
,
pesel
,
peisel
,
peserich
, D.
pees
a tendon or spring.]
The penis; – so called in some animals, as the bull.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pizzle

PIZ'ZLE

,
Noun.
In certain quadrupeds, the part which is official to generation and the discharge of urine.

Definition 2024

pizzle

pizzle

English

Alternative forms

  • pizzel, pisle

Noun

pizzle ‎(plural pizzles)

  1. The **** of an animal.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.19:
      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 [...].
  2. A baton made from the **** of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

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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”). Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese ‎(“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees ‎(“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel ‎(“pizzle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪzl̩/, enPR: pĭz'əl
  • Rhymes: -ɪzəl

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