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peacock
- any male peafowl, esp., one of a species (Pavo cristatus) with a crest of plumules and long, brightly colored upper tail coverts that can be spread like a fan and have rainbow-colored, eyelike spots
- loosely any peafowl
- a vain, strutting person
intransitive verb
to display vanity in behavior, dress, etc.; strut
Related Forms:
- peacockish adjective or peacocky
Peacock,
Thomas Love 1785-1866; Eng. novelist & poet
See peacock in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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