英语词汇“peacock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

peacock

/ˈpiːkɒk

noun

A male peafowl, which has very long tail feathers with eye-like markings that can be erected and fanned out in display.It should be noted that a peacock is a male peafowl and a peahen is a female peafowl....

Male peacocks shed and re-grow tail feathers each year.
For instance, male peacocks not only have a long tail, but they are brightly colored and have eye spots, a crest on their head, spurs on their feet, and a mating call.

Origin

Middle English: from Old English pēa (from Latin pavo) 'peacock' + cock¹.

pea from mid 16th century:
You could not eat a pea until the mid 17th century. The earlier form was pease, which people began to think was a plural, so that if you had a handful of peas you must be able to have one pea (compare cherry). The original is recorded in Old English, and goes back to Greek pison; it survives in pease pudding, for boiled split peas mashed to a pulp. The pea of peacock has no connection—it derives from Latin pavo ‘peacock’, which appears as pea in Old English and was combined with cock ‘male bird’ in Middle English. Nor does a pea jacket have anything to do with peas. It is an early 18th-century half-hearted translation of Dutch pijjackker formed from pij ‘coarse woollen cloth’ (found in Middle English as pee) and jekker ‘jacket’.

单词	peacock
释义	peacock /ˈpiːkɒk / noun A male peafowl, which has very long tail feathers with eye-like markings that can be erected and fanned out in display.It should be noted that a peacock is a male peafowl and a peahen is a female peafowl.... Male peacocks shed and re-grow tail feathers each year. For instance, male peacocks not only have a long tail, but they are brightly colored and have eye spots, a crest on their head, spurs on their feet, and a mating call. Origin Middle English: from Old English pēa (from Latin pavo) 'peacock' + cock¹. pea from mid 16th century: You could not eat a pea until the mid 17th century. The earlier form was pease, which people began to think was a plural, so that if you had a handful of peas you must be able to have one pea (compare cherry). The original is recorded in Old English, and goes back to Greek pison; it survives in pease pudding, for boiled split peas mashed to a pulp. The pea of peacock has no connection—it derives from Latin pavo ‘peacock’, which appears as pea in Old English and was combined with cock ‘male bird’ in Middle English. Nor does a pea jacket have anything to do with peas. It is an early 18th-century half-hearted translation of Dutch pijjackker formed from pij ‘coarse woollen cloth’ (found in Middle English as pee) and jekker ‘jacket’. Rhymes Leacock, seacock
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peacock

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