subs. (old colloquial).—A fickle, inconstant, vacillating person.
1596. SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 2. Where had you this pretty WEATHERCOCK?
1638. RANDOLPH, Amyntas, i. 1. What pretty WEATHERCOCKS these women are.
1672. DRYDEN, The Conquest of Granada, I. iii. 1.
| The word, which I have given, shall stand like fate; | |
| Not like the king’s, that WEATHERCOCK of state. |
1703. WARD, The London Spy vii. 155. They are Men whose Conditions are subject to more Revolutions than a WEATHER-COCK, or the uncertain Mind of a Fantastical Woman.
