Definition of "peacocking"
peacocking
/ˈpikɑkɪŋ/
noun
uncountable
(seduction community) Ostentatious dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress women.
Quotations
Peacocking may take place in legislatures and lodges, churches and chain stores. But it is particularly evident and bizarre in academia, a world where everyone is supposed to produce logically ordered exchanges of ideas.
1997, Emily Toth, Ms. Mentor's impeccable advice for women in academia, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 66