Definition of "peacockery" []

• Gaudy showiness (noun)

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• "I awkwardly boogied my way in her direction, decorating myself en route with the obligatory bar mitzvah dance floor peacockery, and we locked eyes."
• "But beyond that, the Congressional GOP outrage over the matter is also steeped in a competing exhibition of abstract expressionism: deficit peacockery."
• "Certainly, an element of social peacockery does come into play — but that alone does not account for the phenomenon."