paycock
English
Noun
paycock (plural paycocks)
- (nonstandard, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of peacock.
- 1924, Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock
- 2000, Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts:
- The great Irish joiant, Fann Mac Cuil, lived to be a middle-aged man, without ever meeting his match, and so he was as proud as a paycock.
- 2000 June 17, Bill Palmer, “Clarification Of Term "Redneck"”, in alt.usage.english, Usenet:
- ... find some impeccable prose in this newsgroup if you hold the noise >down and pay attention instead of strutting around like a bloomin' paycock.