meacock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

meacocks plural

词源

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