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The reason for this unusual culinary event is the annual celebration of bold adventurer Tom Bawcock, whose fish-catching feats are said to have relieved starvation in the local area during horrific storms.

Why, how now, my bawcock? how dost thou, chuck?

Its plot conventions are no less archaic than its Elizabethan jargon, e.g., tillyvally, bawcock, clodpole.

Bawcock can easily be connected with Baldwin, while Meacock, Maycock, belong to the personal name May or Mee, shortened from the Old Fr.

The two names Bawcock and Meacock had once a special significance.