peacockery
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peacockery
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From peacock + -ery; the (male) peacock puts on showy displays of his tailfeathers.
noun peacockeries
- Gaudy showiness; ostentation. […] he was so deeply struck with the shock of this revelation that he actually forgot himself and his own peacockery.
Talk about this word "peacockery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/peacockery. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. peacockery. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/peacockery "peacockery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/peacockery.Cite this
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title = {peacockery},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peacockery},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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