now that the smoke has cleared and the votes are tallied, I provide this as bribe fodder, which (I hasten to add) I discovered *after making my guess.

1. In early academical costume: The long tail of a graduate's hood

†2. Something to be learned and acted or spoken; one's ‘lesson’, ‘rôle’, or ‘part’; chiefly in phrases to know or have (one's) liripoop, to teach (a person) his liripoop. Obs.
¶b. Used for: A shrewd trick.

†3. A silly person. Obs.
1621 Fletcher Pilgrim ii. i, Keepe me this young Lirrypoope within doors. 17+ Milles MS. Devon Gloss. (Halliw.), A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard.