Meaning of meacock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.
   obsolete
2. A surname.

Examples

“Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.”

“Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock. I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.”

“Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !”

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