peacock – English noun declension

English noun forms of peacock

Noun: peacock
Singularpeacock
Pluralpeacocks

Sample Sentences

  • The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator. [1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:]
  • When a reader recently inquired if people really eat peacock, I stated that I’d never tasted the bird, roasted or otherwise, and as far as I knew, it is rarely cooked anywhere in the world. [1979 April 23, Craig Claiborne, “De Gustibus”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
  • Nor do many people today long to eat peacock, which was both a privilege and an ordeal reserved for royalty. [1990 December 20, Charles Perry, “The Birds: Fowl Play…”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2026:]
  • Nero, infamous emperor of Rome, built a rotating dining room in which guests could eat peacock while flower petals fluttered down from special panels in the ivory ceiling. [2017 September 27, Sam Anderson, “New Sentences: From ‘The New Rules of Coffee’”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2018:]
  • The large and handsome spectre-butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 199:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Pre-Greekbor.
3. Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs)bor.?
4. Latin pāvōbor.
5. Proto-Germanic *pāwô
6. Proto-West Germanic *pāwō
7. Old English pāwa
8. Middle English pe
9. Proto-Germanic *keukô
10. Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
11. Proto-West Germanic *kokk
12. Old English cocc
13. Middle English cok
14. Middle English pecok
15. English peacock
16. From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, first component from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock, peafowl”), ultimately from Latin pāvō; equivalent to pea + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “peafowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc. See: Middle English Nouns 'pecok', Old English Nouns 'pēa', Latin Nouns 'pāvō', English Nouns 'peahen'.

Verbs referencing "peacock"

Irish Nouns péacóg, English Nouns pikake.