There's a tune in James Thomson's 1702 manuscript of Scots music for
the treble recorder called "The Well Buked Ballap". (Most of these
tunes were reprinted by David Johnson long ago and I think are still
available). It had never occurred to me to look the meaning up; I
assumed it had something to do with food, some obscure kind of cake.
By accident I just came across "ballop" in Warrick's dictionary. The
title really means "the well-filled codpiece".
Okay, are there any words for this???
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