Meacock
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Meacock is a noun meaning (obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
Meaning
(obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
Example Sentences
Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !
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.
Word Forms
- meacocks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meese, mesmeree, meader, meaw, mermin, meathe.
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