Synonyms for peacock
| Grammar : Adj, noun, verb |
| Spell : pee-kok |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpiˌkɒk |
Top 10 synonyms for peacock Other synonyms for the word peacock
- act
- apple
- aquamarine
- arrange
- attitudinize
- bag of wind
- beau
- Beau Brummel
- beryl
- bice
- big talker
- big-timer
- bigmouth
- blatherskite
- blowhard
- blusterer
- boast
- boaster
- brag
- braggadocio
- bragger
- brandish
- bully
- chartreuse
- clotheshorse
- cock
- coxcomb
- dude
- egotist
- exhibitionist
- fashion plate
- feign
- fir
- flaunt
- flounce
- flourish
- forest
- gasbag
- gascon
- gasconade
- grandstand
- grandstander
- grass
- greenish-blue
- hector
- hotshot
- impersonate
- jade
- kelly
- know-it-all
- lime
- look big
- lord
- macaroni
- make believe
- make out like
- malachite
- masquerade
- mince
- model
- moss
- parade
- parade one's wares
- pass off
- pea
- peacock
- pine
- play to audience
- play to the crowd
- playact
- poise
- pontificate
- popinjay
- position
- posture
- profess
- purport
- put on
- put on airs
- put up a front
- ranter
- raver
- sage
- sap
- sea
- sham
- show off
- show-off
- sit for
- spinach
- strike a pose
- strike an attitude
- strut
- strutter
- swagger
- swaggerer
- swank
- swash
- swashbuckle
- swashbuckler
- sway
- sweep
- swell
- swelled head
- take off as
- trumpeter
- verdigris
- vert
- viridian
- willow
- windbag
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for peacock
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