pizzle

Meaning

Noun

1. The penis of an animal.
2. The penis of an animal.
3. The penis of an animal.
4. A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

Verb

To beat (with a pizzle).

Translations

Ochsenziemer

قضيب الحيوان وبخاصّة الثور

Rute

Ziemer

nerf de bœuf

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɪzl̩/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: pees

Cognate with Middle Low German: pese

In summary

From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language.
Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).