peacockryn.
/ˈpiːkɒkri/, U.S. /ˈpiˌkɑkri/ = peacockery n.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 78 She nusled them in so proud Peacockrie To th' end they might not see their damned state.
1909 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 2/3 At Siena you leave Pinturicchio's ‘peacockry’ in the Cathedral library only to meet a bevy of youths with striped legs, tight doublets, and feathered caps tossing banners down the street of St. Catherine.
1932 Times Educ. Suppl. 6 Aug. 305/4 A fault among boys was what was called ‘peacockry’, when their vanity caused them to pinch anything to adorn their person.
1993 Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. Tennis has fallen equally to peacockry, a result of big money coming into the game when Wimbledon became an open championship in 1968.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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