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meacock
noun 1name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
alone
MEACOCK + NOUN
wretch
PREP.
with
ADV.
rather, such
Definitions
noun
1
An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock. I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.
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1
A surname.
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Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
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Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock. I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.
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Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !
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