Etymology

peacocky

P3E1A1C3O1C3K5Y4

Today it means: Proud and boastful. Full definition →

English peacock ← Middle English pecok ← Old English cocc
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The story

  1. Latinpāvō
  2. Proto-Germanic*pāwô
  3. Proto-West Germanic*pāwō
  4. Old Englishpāwa
  5. Middle Englishpe
  6. Proto-Germanic*kukkaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*kokk
  8. Old Englishcocc
  9. Middle Englishcok
  10. Middle Englishpecok
  11. Englishpeacock
  12. English todaypeacocky

From peacock + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.