Once upon a time book titles were a touch more Take, for example, the slim volume of songs and anecdotes the British publisher J. Fairburn foisted on an unsuspecting public at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries: The Cockolorum songster, and convivial companion, for Being a collection of monstrous good, monstrous droll, and monstrous bad, songs, introduced by some eccentric anecdotes of my cousin, the noble grand cock.
Also a few cockolorum sentiments. Yes siree, they don't title 'em like they used to In addition to describing a boastful person, cockalorum can be used in referring to the boastful talk and also for the game of leapfrog. If cockalorum suggests a crowing cock, that's because the word probably comes from kockeloeren - an obsolete Dutch dialect verb meaning "to crow. What we do know is that snollygoster was first used in the nasty politics of 19th century America.
One amateur definition of the word dates to , when a newspaper editor explained "a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office, regardless of party, platform or principles Now here I am, a rale self-propelling double revolving Snolly Goster, ready to attack anything but a combination of thunder-lightning-smoke-railroad-iron, and hot water.
Pillock which has also on occasion been spelled pilloch , pillok , and pillick is one of the hundreds of euphemisms for the male sexual organ in the English language.
The Oxford English Dictionary records the earliest known use of the word from the midth century a fruitful time for genitalia euphemisms , and for several hundred years this was apparently the main sense of the word.
