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Meacock

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked. obsolete

    "Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably a blend of meek + peacock, or from meek + -ock (“diminutive suffix”). For cock in a diminutive, see also niddicock.

Etymology 2

Variant of Maycock.

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