English slang

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 80211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001" 
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
> Berk is Cockney rhyming slang for an extremely rude name i.e. 
> Berkshire Hunt.  Most people have forgotten the original meaning 
or 
> they wouldn't use it so readily!  Git I think comes from misbegot, 
> i.e. a bastard.  Again, the original meaning has vanished.  Where 
> pillock comes from, I haven't a clue.  Should be glad to know 
though.
> Sylvia (not usually this pedantic)

According to A Dictionary of Slang at 
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm :

Pillock:
Noun. Idiot, fool. Originally a slang term for the penis but fairly 
inoffensive now that this meaning has been forgotten. Derog. 

Katrina  (who sometimes also tends to the pedantic)