Word of the Day: MEACOCK

ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin: perhaps originally a name of some bird  
(From Murray’s N.E.D.: “the suggestion that it is from meek (adj.) is untenable”)

EXAMPLE
“…He shuld be no cowarde, no maycocke, ne fearfull persone that dare no thyng enterprise….”

From: Here Begynneth a Deuout Treatyse in Englysshe, called the Pylgrimage of Perfection,
By William Bonde, 1526