"my Ghossips cock", 1641?

[Joel S. Berson]

What is the sense of "cock" in the following quotation (OED2, under
gossip, n., 2.a?

  1641 Brome Joviall Crew ii. (1652) D2b, He makes us even sick of
his sadness, that were wont to see my Ghossips cock to day; mould
Cocklebread; daunce clutterdepouch [etc.].


(I note that OED2 has "penis" from 1614.)

Joel

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