Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A timorous, cowardly fellow.
- Tame; timorous; cowardly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
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- noun obsolete An
uxorious ,effeminate , orspiritless man.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Similarly the earl himself describes him as 'a man that as much knowledge has of war as I of brewing mead -- a bookish nursling of the monks -- a meacock. '
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 Various 1836
sionnach commented on the word meacock
A henpecked husband.
February 1, 2008
qms commented on the word meacock
A master of confident free talk
He struts on the stage like a peacock.
At home though, I've heard,
He's a different bird.
A hen rules that stammering meacock.
May 29, 2015