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单词 pajock
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pajockn.

Brit. /ˈpeɪdʒɒk/, U.S. /ˈpeɪˌdʒɑk/
Forms: 1600s paicock, 1600s paiock, 1600s paiocke, 1600s pajocke, 1800s– pajock.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps a variant of patchcock n. (compare form patchock at that entry), or perhaps a transmission error for or variant of peacock n. (although the latter explanation seems unlikely given that the spellings peacock or peacocke are found in the First Folio in the five other places where the word occurs). See further the Arden Shakespeare edition (ed. H. Jenkins, 1982) 509–10.Included in editions of Webster from 1890 in and other dictionaries.
rare.
Chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare: a vain or conceited person; a popinjay.In quot. 1604: of uncertain meaning (see etymology).
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the mind > emotion > pride > [noun] > proud person
proudOE
proud-heartc1400
prouder1565
pajock1604
proudling1612
prideling1825
superbity1903
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 272 Ham. For thou doost know oh Damon deere This Realme dismantled was Of Ioue himselfe, And now raignes heere A very very paiock [1623 Paiocke, 1632 Pajocke, 1676 Paicock]. Hora. You might haue rym'd. View more context for this quotation
1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 354/1 We think of Beau Brummell rather as a ‘very, very pajock’ than a man of bones and sinews.
1954 C. S. Lewis Horse & his Boy xv. 191 Have we no more gravity among us than to be so chafed by the taunt of a pajock?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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