English Explanatory Dictionary

pizzle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The penis of an animal.
  2. in heraldry
  3. the dehydrated meat thereof, as a dog treat
  4. A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.
verb
  1. To beat (with a pizzle).

Pronunciation

/ˈpɪzl̩/ pĭz'əl LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pizzle.wav

Word forms

pizzle pizzles pizzel pizzell pisle pizzling pizzled

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”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language. Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).

Derived words

pizzle rot pizzled pizzling

Translations

Bulgarian: пенис на животно Chinese Cantonese: 鞭 Chinese: 鞭 Chinese Mandarin: 鞭 Galician: verga Galician: vergallo German: Penis German: Fiesel German: Ziemer German: Ochsenziemer German: Rute German: Tierpenis German: Bullenpenis German: Bullenziemer German: Pferdepenis German: Hengstpenis German: Hundepenis Hungarian: bikacsök Manggarai: laso Norwegian Nynorsk: red Welsh: dwsel Welsh: gwialen
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