Thomas peacock
noun
1.
Thomas Love, 1785–1866, English poet and novelist.
noun (pl) -cocks, -cock
1.
a male peafowl, having a crested head and a very large fanlike tail marked with blue and green eyelike spots related adjective pavonine
2.
another name for peafowl
3.
a vain strutting person
verb
4.
to display (oneself) proudly
5.
(obsolete, slang, Austral) to acquire (the best pieces of land) in such a way that the surrounding land is useless to others
noun
1.
Thomas Love. 1785–1866, English novelist and poet, noted for his satirical romances, including Headlong Hall (1816) and Nightmare Abbey (1818)
(Heb. tuk, apparently borrowed from the Tamil tokei). This bird is indigenous to India. It was brought to Solomon by his ships from Tarshish (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21), which in this case was probably a district on the Malabar coast of India, or in Ceylon. The word so rendered in Job 39:13 literally means wild, tumultuous crying, and properly denotes the female ostrich (q.v.).
see: proud as a peacock
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