billycock

American  

[bil-ee-kok] / ˈbɪl iˌkɒk /

noun

Chiefly British Informal.

1. a derby or a hat resembling it.

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billycock British  

/ ˈbɪlɪkɒk /

noun

1. rare any of several round-crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler

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Etymology

Origin of billycock

1715–25; alteration of bullycocked ( hat ); see bully ¹, cock ² ( def. ), -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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billycock

He dragged off the billycock hat which he had bought in town and scaled it far out into the turbid flood.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

A "billycock" or "bowler," as the pot hat is called, is as thoroughly frowned on now in English colleges as it was with us a dozen years ago.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin

Davy wiped down a chair for her with the outside of his billycock and led her up to it with rude but natural manners.

From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Sir Hall Caine

I had noted the hats of that elect assemblage, and there had not been a billycock among them.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

As he stood there, belted about his large waist, a billycock hat on the back of his head, he looked to be anything from a broken-down publican to an out-of-work plumber.

From The Book of All-Power by Edgar Wallace

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