peacockeryn.

Brit.

/ˈpiːkɒk(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈpiˌkɑk(ə)ri/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peacock n., -ery suffix.

Etymology: < peacock n. + -ery suffix. Compare earlier peacockry n.

Ostentatious display; foppery; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

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-

1844 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 7 Sept. 366/1 He was always right, but it is hard, when your feathers are once smoothed down, to pluck out and re-stick them in your poetical peacockery!

1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 21 July 37/2 Gentlemen and ladies in various stages of peacockery and full dressedness are also made manifest.

1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. Prol. ii. 21 There were none of the peacockeries, whims and fancies,..gimcrackeries..which..proclaim the chamber of a young man.

1936 J. Gunther Inside Europe ii. 40 His vanity is extreme, but in an odd way it is not personal. He has no peacockery.

1977 J. Cleary High Road to China vii. 229 We English girls just can't compete with all this peacockery.

1999 Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 42/5 From there, we made our way through the advent of Italian suits, Sixties peacockery, Seventies flares and on into the designer suits of the Eighties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peacockery
释义	peacockeryn. Brit. /ˈpiːkɒk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpiˌkɑk(ə)ri/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peacock n., -ery suffix. Etymology: < peacock n. + -ery suffix. Compare earlier peacockry n. Ostentatious display; foppery; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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- 1844 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 7 Sept. 366/1 He was always right, but it is hard, when your feathers are once smoothed down, to pluck out and re-stick them in your poetical peacockery! 1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 21 July 37/2 Gentlemen and ladies in various stages of peacockery and full dressedness are also made manifest. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. Prol. ii. 21 There were none of the peacockeries, whims and fancies,..gimcrackeries..which..proclaim the chamber of a young man. 1936 J. Gunther Inside Europe ii. 40 His vanity is extreme, but in an odd way it is not personal. He has no peacockery. 1977 J. Cleary High Road to China vii. 229 We English girls just can't compete with all this peacockery. 1999 Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 42/5 From there, we made our way through the advent of Italian suits, Sixties peacockery, Seventies flares and on into the designer suits of the Eighties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1844
随便看	keep the tout keep the watch keep the wind keep the wolf from the door keep this show on the road keep throng keep time keep to keep to a minimum keep to heel keep to one's last keep to one's threap keep to oneself keep to the point keep to the record keep to windward of keep together keep touch keep tout keep trace of keep track keep under keep under awe keep under key keep under one's hat