"meacock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
          "text": "Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.",
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          "ref": "1604, Thomas Decker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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        "An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked."
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        "(obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked."
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