peacocked
SayPEE-koktUS/ˈpikɑkt/UK/ˈpiːkɒkt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of peacock.
He peacocked through the gallery opening, pausing wherever the cameras pointed.
She had peacocked across the ballroom long before the host arrived.
Note
A regular -ed form of a verb built on the bird and on the vain person it names. It covers both strutting proudly and showy dressing meant to impress women. Both uses are intransitive, so the participle follows have (she had peacocked across the ballroom) but never forms a passive: nobody is peacocked. Like strut, it pairs naturally with a phrase of motion such as through, across or about.
peacocked is a form of peacock
peacock, verb: To walk with a proud, self-important air; to strut about haughtily. Full entry
- Forms
- peacockpeacocks he/she/itpeacocking -ing formpeacocked past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- peacock → peacocked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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