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What’s in a name? (i.imgur.com)
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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Peacocks have cocks. Peahens do not.

Also:

Spider (doesn't actually spy)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 years ago

Peacocks have cocks. Peahens do not.

Peacocks don't have a pecker in their privates. Instead of a johnson, they have a cloaca. No willie.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The cloaca holds both the penis and the butthole on a male, and the vagina on a female. They still have penetrative sex. They're not fish. It just doesn't poke outside the body.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

Can you back that up? I've spent the last 10 minutes searching up cloaca diagrams and pictures and articles and I can't find any decent information about it. Only saying that they do a cloaca kiss and transfer sperm, but then I can't find a cloaca diagram that labels any part as a penis.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I couldn't find anything specific to peacocks either, but plenty of various other birds, including chickens which have the smallest little nub of a penis to ducks and their long, twisty corkscrew cock.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure you could call whatever a chicken does "penetrative", and I feel like the term "penis" has a specific meaning that wouldn't include cloaca.

[-] TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the image, btw

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

cock (n.1) "male of the domestic fowl," from Old English cocc "male bird," Old French coc (12c., Modern French coq), Old Norse kokkr, all of echoic origin. Compare Albanian kokosh "cock," Greek kikkos, Sanskrit kukkuta, Malay kukuk.

cock (n.3)

"penis," 1610s, but certainly older and suggested in word-play from at least 15c.; also compare pillicock "penis," attested from early 14c.

They're called peacocks because they're peafowl who are cocks. It's a way older term than the slang usage.

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