peacock /pēˈkok/

1. A genus (Pavo) of large birds of the pheasant kind, consisting of the common peacock (Pavo cristatus) and the Javan (Pavo muticus), noted for their showy plumage, esp, in the former, the deep iridescent greenish blue in the neck and tail-coverts
2. The male of either species
3. A vain person
4. Peacock-blue (also adjective)
5. A peacock butterfly

1. To make like a peacock
2. To pick the best parts out of (Aust)

1. To strut about or behave like a peacock
2. To acquire the choicest pieces of land (ie near water) (Aust)

peacockˈery noun

Vain ostentation

peaˈcockish adjective

peaˈcock-like adjective

peaˈcocky adjective

peaˈcock-blueˈ noun

The deep greenish-blue of the peacock's neck (also adjective)

• hangable
• hang about
• hang a left
• hangar
• hang a right
• hang around
• hangars
• hang back
• hangbird
• hangbirds
• hang by a thread
• hang by the wall
• hangdog
• hangdogs
• hang, draw and quarter
• hanged
• hanger
• knock-rating
• knocks
• knock sideways
• knock spots off
• knock the bottom out of
• knock the daylights out of
• knock the hell out of
• knock the living daylights out of