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meacocks

meacocks is the plural of meacock.

Meaning of meacock

Noun

meacock (plural meacocks)

  1. (obsolete) 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]...

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Proper noun capitalized: Meacocks

Meacocks

  1. (plural) plural of Meacock

Questions about meacocks

What is meacocks the plural of?
Meacocks is the plural of meacock.
What part of speech is meacocks?
Meacocks is a proper noun.

Words near meacocks in the dictionary

  1. Meachams
  2. Meachum
  3. Meachums
  4. Meaco
  5. meacock
  6. meacocks
  7. meaconing
  8. mead
  9. mead bench
  10. mead benches
  11. mead hall

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