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Peacock vs Meacock - What's the difference?

peacock | meacock |

As a proper noun peacock

is .

As a noun meacock is

(obsolete) an uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.

peacock

English

(wikipedia peacock)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male or female pheasant of the two genera: Pavo'' or ''Afropavo , whose males have extravagant tails.
  • A vainglorious person

    • Synonyms

    * peafowl rare

    Hyponyms

    * peachick * peahen

    Derived terms

    * peacock butterfly * peacock fish * peacocking * peacock pheasant * proud as a peacock

    See also

    * pajock

    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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