# peacocking

Pronunciation: say "PEE-kok-ing" US /ˈpikɑkɪŋ/, UK /ˈpiːkɒkɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Showy dress or attention-grabbing behavior used by a man in an effort to impress women.
   - Simple: Wearing showy clothes or acting boldly so a man stands out and impresses women.
   - _Her date's relentless peacocking (flashy car, designer labels) came off as desperate rather than confident._
   - _Among the regulars at the club, peacocking was the standard approach to catching a woman's eye._

## Origin

Formed from "peacock" combined with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/peacocking (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).