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A man wearing a showy suit. In sociology, peacocking is a social behavior in which a male uses ostentatious clothing and behavior to attract a female [1] and to stand out from other competing males, with the intention to become more memorable and interesting.
In Wikipedia, a peacock term is language that shows off the importance of a subject without giving any real information. For example, compare: William Peckenridge, 1st Duke of Omnium (1602? - May 8, 1671) is considered, by some people, to be the most important man ever to carry that title. with William Peckenridge, 1st Duke of Omnium (1602?
"Massacre", along with "atrocity" and a few others, are what I called "vulture" words - like peacock words only gory rather than gaudy. Since words like this are bandied about in a number of projects dealing with political controversy, we at the Israel-Palestine collab thought it might be a good idea for an overall Wikipedia guideline on the issue.
The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [1] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law.
This category contains all pages labelled with {} and {{Peacock term}}, and exists primarily for bot-based monitoring of articles containing peacock terms. By-month categories are located in Category:Articles with peacock terms. So that articles don't remain in this category too long, a suggestion is made to work on articles beginning with a ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Peacock itself had just 30 million subscribers as of last month. Most Americans don’t have it – roughly only one in 11 people in the country have a subscription – though the NFL says Peacock ...
Synonyms are often from the different strata making up a language. For example, in English, Norman French superstratum words and Old English substratum words continue to coexist. [11] Thus, today there exist synonyms like the Norman-derived people, liberty and archer, and the Saxon-derived folk, freedom and bowman.