pizzle /PI-zəl/. noun. An animal penis, most often a bull’s, or a whip made from the same. Likely from German pesel or Flemish pezel (sinew, bowstring).
“…as he entered and walked over toward the bull’s stall. —There! he said, swinging round, and the lantern with him, —There’s a masterful pizzle for you!” (William Gaddis)
“Oh you are an angel! You may sit, Dick. (Pause.) In a word, REDUCE the pressure instead of increasing it. (Lyrical.) Caress, fount of resipescence! (Calmer.) Dick, if you would. (Swish and thud of pizzle on flesh. Faint cry from FOX.) Careful, Miss.” (Samuel Beckett)
“You gutless popinjay! My dog has more valor in its pizzle than you possess in your entire body!” (Jasper Fforde)
“The Vandiemenlander stood in the street opposite with his pizzle in one hand and the revolver in the other.” (Cormac McCarthy)
“So enjoy yourselves my loves happily reading what follows for your bodily comfort and the good of your loins. Listen now, you ass-pizzles. May ulcers give you gammy legs: and remember to drink a toast back to me!” (Francois Rabelais)
“Carry on up Clerkenwell, indeed, would have been a more suitable title for this arrestingly crude novel, thronged as it is with lusty nuns, flatulent merchants, monks who can’t keep their pizzles in their cassocks and flagellation-hungry canons.” (Robert MacFarlane)
“Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; ‘tis very late, i’
faith: I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.”
(William Shakespeare)