Crossword clues for peacock
peacock
- Symbol of proudness
- Strutting show-off
- Showy-tailed bird
- Showy fowl
- Showy flier
- Proud one
- Proud bird with beautiful feathers
- NBC's logo
- NBC symbol
- NBC bird
- Longtime network symbol
- Flashy dresser
- Fancy-ass bird?
- Fan-tailed bird
- Colorful strutter
- Colorful NBC symbol
- Bird with iridescent tail feathers
- Avian symbol of pride
- "The White ___" (D.H. Lawrence's first novel)
- "Proud" bird with a colorful tail
- Colour of bird down
- Proud one of the animal kingdom
- Recipient of Argus's 100 eyes, in myth
- Male peafowl
- Having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots
- European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
- Strutter
- Vain person in a heap after PE
- Vain person
- Exercise a fowl to produce a more beautiful bird
- Eat sparingly with a company in part of a muster?
- Ornamental fowl
- A quick kiss, embracing a firm, gorgeous bird
- Kiss overwhelms a firm, vain fellow
- Showy person
- Showy bird
- Butterfly gives a firm penetrating nip
- Dandy having some veg served with chicken?
- A vain, strutting person, Thomas Love!
- Blue hue
- Vanity case
- Bird with iridescent feathers
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peacock \Pea"cock`\ (p[=e]"k[o^]k`), n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. pe['a], p[=a]wa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. taw`s, taw^s, Per. t[=a]us, t[=a]wus, Ar. t[=a]w[=u]s. See Cock the bird.]
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(Zo["o]l.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by concentric bands of brilliant blue, green, and golden colors. The common domesticated species is Pavo cristatus. The Javan peacock ( Pavo muticus) is more brilliantly colored than the common species.
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In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.
Peacock butterfly (Zo["o]l.), a handsome European butterfly ( Hamadryas Io) having ocelli like those of peacock.
Peacock fish (Zo["o]l.), the European blue-striped wrasse ( Labrus variegatus); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also cook wrasse and cook.
Peacock pheasant (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus Polyplectron. They resemble the peacock in color.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, poucock, from Middle English po "peacock" + coc (see cock (n.)).\n
\nPo is from Old English pawa "peafowl" (cock or hen), from Latin pavo (genitive pavonis), which, with Greek taos said to be ultimately from Tamil tokei (but perhaps is imitative; Latin represented the peacock's sound as paupulo).\n
\nThe Latin word also is the source of Old High German pfawo, German Pfau, Dutch pauw, Old Church Slavonic pavu. Used as the type of a vainglorious person from late 14c. Its flesh superstitiously was believed to be incorruptible (even St. Augustine credits this). "When he sees his feet, he screams wildly, thinking that they are not in keeping with the rest of his body." [Epiphanus]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A male or female pheasant of the two genera: ''Pavo'' or ''Afropavo'', whose males have extravagant tails. 2 A vainglorious person
WordNet
n. European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot [syn: peacock butterfly, Inachis io]
male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots
Wikipedia
Peacock is a 2005 film directed by Gu Changwei, written by Li Qiang. This is Gu's first film as director after a lengthy career as a cinematographer for some of China's top directors. The film premiered simultaneously in both China and in competition at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, going on to receive Berlin's Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear.
Its original runtime was over four hours, but was reduced to 144 minutes for its theatrical release.
The Peacock egg is a jewelled and rock crystal Easter egg made by Dorofeiev under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1908, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1908.
Peacock is a 2010 American psychological thriller directed by Michael Lander, written by Lander and Ryan Roy, and starring Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Susan Sarandon. It was editor Sally Menke's final film.
"Peacock" is a song by American singer Katy Perry, taken from her third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010). Because the song was filled with suggestive lyrics pertaining to male genitalia, Capitol Records initially opposed the idea of including it on her record. Similar to what happened with another song of hers – " I Kissed a Girl" (2008) – she refused. "Peacock" was panned by music critics and, musically, was compared to the 1980s hit " Mickey" by Toni Basil, and Gwen Stefani's " Hollaback Girl" (2005).
Despite not being released as a single, the song entered several music charts worldwide. Its least successful charting territory was the United Kingdom, while it performed best in the US, topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart for a week, and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Perry has performed "Peacock" on several occasions, including during her 2011 world tour California Dreams Tour. When performing the track, the singer usually wears colorful or glittery clothing.
Usage examples of "peacock".
He fastened the embroidered peacock agraffe at her neck and pulled the hood up over her plaited hair.
His family went hungry, his clothes turned to rags, while he stared into the glass alembic and waited for the nigredo to give way to the peacock colors of transformation, through the white albedo to the glorious red of the final stage.
Garden of Forty Felicitous Fragrances, Fainting Maid was insulting the intelligence of her ladies-in-waiting in the Gallery of Precious Peacocks, and the Ancestress was chiding a servant who had dropped a cup on the Terrace of Sixty Serenities.
Countess Daru, in a gown of peacock blue satin, was sitting dreamily beside her cousin, a young civil servant by the name of Henri Beyle with a broad, plain face redeemed from the commonplace by a magnificent brow, a bright and piercing eye and a sardonic curve of the lips.
State House which she has had made private even from the peacocks and guinea-fowl by a surrounding trellis covered with the orange-flowered bignonia that grows at all latitudes in Africa.
Then he slew a cassowary and a flamingo and a grebe and a heron and a bittern and a pair of ducks and a shouting peacock and a dancing crane and a bustard and a lily-trotter and, wiping the sacred sweat from his brow with one ermine-trimmed sleeve, slew a wood pigeon and a cockatoo and a tawny owl and a snowy owl and a magpie and three jackdaws and a crow and a jay and a dove.
The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage.
Right along the outbuildings extended a large dunghill, from which manure liquid oozed, while amidst fowls and turkeys, five or six peacocks, a luxury in Chauchois farmyards, were foraging on the top of it.
You are very like the peacock, I thought, who is wrapped in the pride of his beauteous feathers but is known to be a dunghill bird by reason of his foul feet.
Things have changed in the Realm, Minalde, since you sat on the water terraces of Gae and fanned yourself with peacock plumes.
Lord Hino sat cross-legged there, as though he were part of the clouds of cherry blossoms and peacocks painted on the gilt sliding panels of the wall behind him.
Sutherland Lounge was a much hipper place to listen to music than Peacock Alley had been.
That remained shrouded beneath its baffles, but she had no doubt it would show the peacock mottling, like oil on water, that was characteristic of the keels cast in the Hegemony.
Some human mechanician, I daresay, eager to please the vampire lords and ladies, showed off his cleverness as proud as a peacock.
Pair of drab brown peahens and a gloriOuslY colored peacock scratched in the thick green carpet of grass for sustenance.