popcock (1852ff)

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has poppycock from 1852 (with the second quotation from 1864).
Popcock (pop-cock) may be related to poppycock.

Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, (Milwaukee, WI) Saturday, August 07, 1852; col C  [19th c. n.]
....Our authority says P. stands for Poor Prices, Pierce,...Plunder of Public Property,...and Pop-cock generally....

The Daily Scioto Gazette, (Chillicothe, OH) Tuesday, April 05, 1853; Issue 107; col B
...Edward Everett, towers above the petting, snarling and snapping of popcock Senators....

Jackson Citizen, page 2 December 28, 1853 Published as:THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. Jackson, Michigan
Headline: A Liquor Trial In Jackson [Am. Hist. N.]
...C. Wood, alias "Counsellor Popcock," for the defendants.

The Boston Daily Atlas, (Boston, MA) Saturday, August 16, 1856; Issue 40; col G
Popular Sovereignty is better known here by the name of "sovereign popcock."

 Memento Mori;
Daily Ohio Statesman, published as The Daily Ohio Statesman;  10-28-1856 vol: III; issue: 128; p: [2];
...the Democracy can bid defiance to legions of Popcock Parsons.... Columbus, Ohio

The Sun. a Dose of Cayenne;
Sun, published as The Pittsfield Sun.;  09-16-1858; vol. LIX; iss. : 3026; p. [1]; Pittsfield, Massachusetts
His pop-cock war speech...

Letter from Fitch Burg;  Letters;
 Wisconsin Daily Patriot, published as The Wisconsin Daily Patriot;10-17-1860;v. iss. 6;  p.147; [2];  Madison, Wisconsin
...he will not vote for Popcock Dwight [elsewhere, "Popcock," Dwight]

[?]Vanity Fair, Dec. 27, 1862, p. 306 col. 2 [GoogleBooks]
Oh! wal, ef popcock's guntah reüle all threöugh, [?]

The new Northwest, March 29, 1872
Silly men and silly women, full of conceit and sentimentality, and what is familiarly known as popcock....
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022673/1872-03-29/ed-1/seq-1/;words=popcock?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&proxdistance=5&date2=1922&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=popcock&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0

Independent Statesman, (Concord, NH) Thursday, September 08, 1881; pg. 392; Issue 49; col B
The Post's idea...is all popcock.

Stephen Goranson
people.duke.edu/~goranson

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