Plotcock.

The old Scotch form of the Roman Pluto, by which Satan is meant. Chaucer calls Plato the “king of Faërie,” and Dunbar names him “Pluto the elrich incubus.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Pledge
Pleiades
Plét
Pleydell (Mr. Paulus)
Pliable
Pliny
Pliny’s Doves
Plith
Plon-plon
Plot
Plotcock
Plough
Plough Monday
Plover
Plowden
Plowman
Pluck
Pluck his Goose
Plucked Pigeon (A)
Plugson of Undershot
Plum