peacocky

• He's a vain, peacocky, empty-headed youth, and as soon as the breath is out of his granddad's body he'll want to try his wings and take a peck or two at us. —  In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
• Hope he'll like what he looks on He slated this nag as a peacocky brute Whose utter collapse they've been building their books on How now, my spry veteran? —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892
• She's grown since she's been countessed, and does it peacocky. —  Evan Harrington — Volume 4
• You fancy, perhaps, that there is a severe sense of duty mixed with these peacocky motives? —  The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
• "It gives you such a dressed-up, peacocky feeling." —  The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

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