peacock

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pea·cock /ˈpiːkɒk $ -kɑːk/ noun [countable]   HBBa large bird, the male of which has long blue and green tail feathers that it can lift up and spread out （雄）孔雀 → peahen →4  See picture of 见图 peacock

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peacock• There was a peacock there, stampeded by the queue.• Every time she seduces a fresh peacock, she wins a little extra sperm that she probably does not need.• The low-growing peacock gingers also would fit well in such a grouping.• Above the scoop neckline of her peacock blue dress, an ill-defined rash of mottled pink broke out, then faded.• He climbed away from their reaching hands, on to the very top of the gantry, breaking the spines of his peacock wings.• In a few weeks' time this year's peacocks, immaculately spruce, would emerge from pupae.• The peacock butterfly normally rests with its wings pressed tightly together.• No one in Lancre had ever worn a waistcoat embroidered with peacocks.Origin peacock (1300-1400) pea “peacock” ((900-1000)) (from Old English, from Latin pavo) + cock

pea·cock nounChineseSyllable  

which bird, of large Corpus a the male

Peacock
Peacock, Thomas Love
(1785–1866) a British writer and poet who used satire (=a way of writing in which you make someone seem funny in order to show their faults) to criticize the politicians and writers of his time, and who is known especially for his novels Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey

peacock
pea‧cock /ˈpiːkɒk $ -kɑːk/ noun [countable]
a large bird, the male of which has long blue and green tail feathers that it can lift up and spread out ⇨ peahen

pea·cockBrE /ˈpiːkɒk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpiːkɑːk/ 🔊 nouna large male bird with long blue and green tail feathers that it can spread out like a fan 雄孔雀◆as proud as a peacock孔雀般的骄傲  ➡  see also peahen