plotcock

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• plotcock —    obsolete    the devil    To plot was to scald in boiling water in northern English and Scottish dialect, as a chicken before plucking, and the cock was a symbol of the occult powers:     Seven times does her prayers backwards pray, Till… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie — (also Lindesay or Lyndsay; c. 1532 ndash;1580) was a Scottish chronicler, author of The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436 ndash;1565 , the first history of Scotland to be written in Scots rather than Latin.Of the family of the Lindesays… …   Wikipedia