paycock

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Noun[edit]

paycock (plural paycocks)

  1. (nonstandard, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of peacock.
    • 1924, Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock:
    • 2000, Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts‎[1]:
      The great Irish joiant, Fann Mac Cuil, lived to be a middle-aged man, without ever meeting his match, and so he was as proud as a paycock.
    • 2000 June 17, Bill Palmer, “Clarification Of Term "Redneck"”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
      ... find some impeccable prose in this newsgroup if you hold the noise >down and pay attention instead of strutting around like a bloomin' paycock.
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