Antonyms for peacock

Grammar : Adj, noun, verb

Spell : pee-kok

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpiˌkɒk

Definition of peacock

Origin : c.1300, poucock, from Middle English po "peacock" + coc (see cock (n.)).
Po is from Old English pawa "peafowl" (cock or hen), from Latin pavo (genitive pavonis), which, with Greek taos said to be ultimately from Tamil tokei (but perhaps is imitative; Latin represented the peacock's sound as paupulo).
The Latin word also is the source of Old High German pfawo, German Pfau, Dutch pauw, Old Church Slavonic pavu. Used as the type of a vainglorious person from late 14c. Its flesh superstitiously was believed to be incorruptible (even St. Augustine credits this). "When he sees his feet, he screams wildly, thinking that they are not in keeping with the rest of his body." [Epiphanus]

As in green : adj emerald in color
As in braggart : noun person who talks boastingly
As in vaunter : noun braggart
As in fop : noun dandy
As in pose : verb sit, stand in place
As in pose : verb pretend, fake
As in strut : verb walk pompously
As in swagger : verb show off; walk pompously
As in swank : verb strut
As in swash : verb strut

Example sentences :

We are not feasting on baked swans, peacock tongues and drinking our pearls.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

I wouldn't have nothin' to say to any bird below a Peacock; and he'd be wulgar.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Then I know another story of how the eyes came into the peacock's feathers.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

A cloudless sky has a peacock in it, whose servants are the eagles.
Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain

A hen is all right in her place, but she don't belong in a peacock cage.
Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Tis the plumes of the Peacock that men covet; hence his ruin.
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

Captain Warrington cruised in the Peacock in the spring of 1814.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 » by Various

Look at them, Mary; ain't they like the blossoms on a peacock's tail?
Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles Lever

Round the train of thy skirt, O my Peacock, I fitfully squirm.
Extract from : « The Battle of the Bays » by Owen Seaman

And she was about as like Sara, I imagine, as a white dove is like a peacock.
Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey

Synonyms for peacock

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