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meacock

noun

Etymology

Probably a blend of meek + peacock, or from meek + -ock (“diminutive suffix”). For cock in a diminutive, see also niddicock.

  1. derived from pāvō
  2. inherited from pēa
  3. inherited from pecok
  4. compounded as meacock — “meek + peacock”

Definitions

  1. An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man

    An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.

    • Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
    • 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.
    • Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !

  2. A surname.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA