Brewer's: Princox

or Princocks. (Probably from prime and cock.) Capulet calls Tybalt a princox, or wilful spoilt boy. (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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