pea´cock´like

pea´cock´like
pea|cock «PEE KOK», noun, plural -cocks or (collectively) -cock, verb.
–n.
1. a large bird with beautiful green, blue, and gold feathers and a splendid train. The tail coverts of the male have spots like eyes on them and can be spread out and held upright like a fan. The peacock lives in Asia and Africa, nests on the ground, and can fly only short distances.
2. any male peacock, especially as contrasted with the peahen.
3. Figurative. a person who is vain and fond of showing off.
–v.i.
to strut like a peacock; make a conceited display; pose.
–v.t.
1. to cause to strut or pose like a peacock; make vain.
2. Australian Slang. to pick out the choicest piece of land, so that the adjoining land loses its value to anyone else.
╂[Middle English pekok, also pakock < Old English pēa, pāwa a peafowl of either sex (< Latin pāvō, -ōnis) + cocc cock1]
–pea´cock´like, adjective.
Pea|cock «PEE KOK», noun.
the constellation Pavo.

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