Thesaurus / peacocks
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synonyms for peacocks
- blowhard
- blusterer
- boaster
- brag
- braggadocio
- bragger
- egotist
- exhibitionist
- gasbag
- grandstander
- hotshot
- know-it-all
- peacock
- ranter
- raver
- show-off
- swaggerer
- swashbuckler
- trumpeter
- windbag
- bag of wind
- bigmouth
- big talker
- big-timer
- gascon
- strutter
- swelled head
- affect
- act
- attitudinize
- feign
- grandstand
- impersonate
- masquerade
- peacock
- playact
- posture
- profess
- purport
- sham
- make believe
- make out like
- pass off
- put on airs
- put up a front
- show off
- strike an attitude
- take off as
- prance
- sashay
- stalk
- stride
- swagger
- flaunt
- flounce
- grandstand
- mince
- parade
- peacock
- swank
- sweep
- play to audience
- put on airs
- show off
- bluster
- gloat
- prance
- sashay
- saunter
- strut
- boast
- brag
- brandish
- bully
- flourish
- gasconade
- grandstand
- hector
- lord
- parade
- peacock
- pontificate
- swank
- sweep
- swell
- look big
- parade one's wares
- play to the crowd
- put on
- put on airs
- swashbuckle
- flaunt
- flounce
- grandstand
- mince
- parade
- peacock
- prance
- sashay
- stalk
- stride
- swagger
- swash
- sweep
- play to audience
- put on airs
- show off
- flaunt
- flounce
- grandstand
- mince
- parade
- peacock
- prance
- sashay
- stalk
- stride
- swagger
- swank
- sweep
- play to audience
- put on airs
- show off
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How to use peacocks in a sentence
A number of peacocks, silver-pheasants, mandarin-ducks, and deer are preserved in their gardens.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERThey killed several peacocks; the enraged people fell upon them and ill-used them in such a way that they shortly afterwards died.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERThe hedges are shaped into peacocks, and not unfrequently into ladies and gentlemen dancing a minuet.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYIt was a show to be proud of, and in point of colour resembling solar spectrums, or peacocks' tails.
THE BELTED SEASARTHUR COLTONWhat are those strange-looking beasts mincing along like gigantic peacocks?
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLDG. E. MITTONThere is a special point for us to observe in those dark peacocks.
LECTURES ON LANDSCAPEJOHN RUSKINAccording to another source the sacrifice to the evil spirit is said to have consisted of nine red cocks, and nine peacocks eyes.
IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGYST. JOHN D. (ST. JOHN DRELINCOURT) SEYMOURIn this one traces of peacocks and other figures in fresco, ornamenting the divisions between the rows, are still visible.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTWomen may be vain as peacocks, but for prinking, dandifying vanity, commend me to a pair of foreign war-captains.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETTThen John looks after the staggery; Henry works the coloured fountain; and Peter paints the peacocks' tails.
HAPPY DAYSALAN ALEXANDER MILNE