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pizzle
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synonyms: sjambok, knout, scourge ???
tags: [heraldry]
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Definition:1. an animal's penis2. a whip made from an ox or bull penis3. a penis of an animal when highlighted on a coat of armsmost people are familiar with this already—as dog chews. Poor bull.
photo: by Gergely Vass, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9448433
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King: HOLD! YOU DARE SIT THERE, BOY? That was King Richard's seat! Would you insult his ghost!?
Blackadder: uh, no, no - sorry.
[ghost appears in the chair, but only Blackadder can see and hear it.]
Ghost: Yes, find your own chair, you smelly little dog's pizzle!
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Foretelling
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Pea Eye came stumbling through about that time, trying to get his pizzle out of his pants before his bladder started to flood.Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)
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Among the crew there were two slaves who rowed very badly, and to whose bare shoulders the Levantine captain would now and then apply blows from a bull's pizzle.
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with the help of that good pizzle my father left me.
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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