meacock
meacock noun: an uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
Noun
meacock (plural meacocks)
- An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
- Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock. I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.1604, Thomas Decker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore
Proper noun capitalized: Meacock
Meacock (plural Meacocks)
- A surname.
Forms of meacock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | meacocks |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Meacocks |
Origin of meacock
Probably a blend of meek + peacock, or from meek + -ock (“diminutive suffix”). For cock in a diminutive, see also niddicock.
Variant of Maycock.
Questions about meacock
- What does meacock mean?
- Meacock means an uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
- What part of speech is meacock?
- Meacock can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of meacock?
- The plural of meacock is meacocks.
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