subs. (old).—A fool.
1587. HOLINSHED, Description of Ireland, G. 3, col. 1 a. They were never such fond NIDDICOCKES as to offer any man a rodde to beate their owne tayles.
1654. GAYTON, Festivious Notes on … Don Quixote, p. 61. Oh, Chrysostome, thou … deservest to be stak’d as well as buried in the open fields, for being such a goose, widgeon, and NIDDECOCK, to dye for love. Ibid. Shee was just such another NIDDECOOK as Joan Gutierez.
