meacock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
Obsolete
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !"