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peacockery

peacockery noun: gaudy showiness; ostentation.

Noun

peacockery (usually uncountable, plural peacockeries)

  1. (usually) Gaudy showiness; ostentation.
    • […] he was so deeply struck with the shock of this revelation that he actually forgot himself and his own peacockery.1880, Walter Besant, James Rice, chapter XXIV, in The Seamy Side, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1888, page 280
    • Designs ranged from elaborate peacockery to sexy sheaths of black sequins, to puffs of lace topped with sparkling rhinestones.1946 November 11, “The New Elegance”, in Time

peacockery meaning in Kannada

peacockery in Kannada

ಜಂಭ, ಆಡಂಬರ, ಗರ್ವ, ಧಿಮಾಕು

Forms of peacockery

pluralpeacockeries

Origin of peacockery

From peacock + -ery; the (male) peacock puts on showy displays of his tailfeathers.

Questions about peacockery

What does peacockery mean?
Peacockery means gaudy showiness; ostentation.
What is peacockery in Kannada?
Peacockery in Kannada is ಜಂಭ, ಆಡಂಬರ, ಗರ್ವ. See Peacockery meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is peacockery?
Peacockery is a noun.
What is the plural of peacockery?
The plural of peacockery is peacockeries.

Words near peacockery in the dictionary

  1. peacock's tail
  2. peacock-pheasant
  3. peacock-pheasants
  4. peacocked
  5. peacockeries
  6. peacockery
  7. Peacockian
  8. peacockiest
  9. peacocking
  10. peacockish
  11. peacockishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peacockery (page history and authors); peacockery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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