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Macock vs Meacock - What's the difference?

macock | meacock |

As nouns the difference between macock and meacock

is that macock is (historical) a particular plant formerly grown by native americans of virginia and maryland, thought to be a variety of squash while meacock is (obsolete) an uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.

macock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A particular plant formerly grown by Native Americans of Virginia and Maryland, thought to be a variety of squash.
  • * 1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , quoted by Kupperman in 1988:
    • In May amongst their corne they plant Pumpeons, and a fruit like unto a muske millen, but lesse and worse, which they call Macocks .

    See also

    * mocuck

    meacock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
  • * 1593-1594 , , ii 1
    • Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
  • * 1604 ,
    • Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock . I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.
  • * 1876 , Henry Taylor, Philip Van Artevelde.'', ''A Dramatic Romance.'', ''In Two Parts. , Henry S. King & Co. (London), page 86
    • Earl:'' A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ''... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock  !

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