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Feb. 9, 2015
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\PEE-kok\
verb
1. to make a vainglorious display; strut like a peacock.
noun
1. the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
Quotes
…he must have passed for a rich man when he peacocked about the town in his shaggy purple gown with gold buttons and hoop lace.
-- Katharine Burrill, "Letters of a Peer and a Pork-Packer," Chambers's Journal, Volume VI, 1903
Origin
Peacock is formed from the now-obsolete word pea meaning "peafowl," and cock meaning "a male of the gallinaceous kind" or "rooster." It entered English at the turn of the 13th century as a noun, and began to be used as a verb in the late 1500s.
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