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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375-1597
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Pacok, n.1 Also: pay- and -cock, -coke, -koc; packoke. [ME. (? chiefly or only north.) pakoc (14–15th c.), pacok, f. paa (a 1400–50), pae (15th c.), midl. and south. pocok (Piers Plowman) f. midl. MF. po (a 1307), poo (1382), OE. pæwa, pæwe (f. L. pāvo) and -cok Cok n.: cf. Pacon. (and Pecok n.).] A peacock.Also, a representation of a peacock. 1311 Reg. Dunferm. 228.
[Per me dominum Andream Pacok 1365 Rot. Sc. 897/1.]
Adam Pakoc mercator de Scotia(1) ?1438 Alex. ii. 5153.
I rede we to the pacok do The vsage that coustumit is thair-to ?1438 Ib. 8960. 14.. Acts I. 386/2.
Of pacokis and of dowis the natur is wilde [etc.] c1450-2 Howlat 83 (A).
Quha is fader of all foule pastour & pape That is the plesant pacok c1450-2 Ib. 90.
Pacoke c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 13577.
Hir fetherame [sc. the phoenix's] was till ane pacok like 1500 Treasurer's Accounts II. 96.
Giffin to ane man that brocht ane pacok to the King xvj d. 1501–2 Ib. 135. 1504 Ib. 445.
For the tursing of the Kingis coffrez and the quhit pacok to Strivelin c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 379 (M).
Quhen he … payntit me as pacok [Ch. & M. pako] proudest of fedderis c1500-c1512 Id. xlvi. 14. c1500-c1512 Id. xlviii. 123 (B).
Scho … bawd him [the eagle] be als just to awppis and owlis. As vnto pacokkis, papingais or crennis 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 207.
This daye at morne my forme and feddrem fair Abufe the prude pacoke war precellande 1579 Despauter (1579).
Pavus, a pacok(b) 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI 30 Apr.
Fra the laird of Craiggie Hall ane paycok and ane peyhen(2) 1558-66 Knox I. 147.
The other … as proud as a packoke, wold lett the cardinall know that he was a bischop 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 321.
On the morne scho come furth … als proud as ane paycok(3) 1588 Edinburgh Testaments XIX. 305 b.
Ane gros of cairtis of the pacok cost xj frankis xv sous 1597 Ib. XXXI. 176.
Tua dussone pacok cairtis price xl s.
b. Attrib. with -bank, -fedder, -tail. 1457 Exchequer Rolls VI. 340.
Per … firmas terrarum de le Pacokbank c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxviii. 8.
How that the sasoun soft and fair Come in als fresche as pacok feddir 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 6187.
Ane nice abilȝement As pacock taillis and fedderis of all kin hew 1560 Ib. 6376.
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