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cocksmanship, n.
Brit. |ˈkɒksmənʃɪp|, U.S. |ˈkɑksm(ə)nˌʃɪp|
[‹ cocksman n. + -ship suffix.]
The condition or behaviour of a cocksman. Hence fig.: highly and aggressively competitive behaviour of a type considered stereotypically masculine.
1977New Times 4 Mar. 62/2 Alas, the world—the world of women—mistakes his tragic passion for mere resilient cocksmanship. 1986National Rev. (Nexis) 15 Aug. 54 A free country countenances publishers who advocate callousness toward women, cocksmanship as the primal urge, utter insouciance and irresponsibility for the fate of others. 1993Playboy Jan. 92/1 Is there a sort of comedy cocksmanship when you're together, with each trying to outdo the others with cleverness? 1995S. Faludi in New Yorker 30 Oct. 70/1 Cal compensated for his lack of cocksmanship by marketing himself around the [pornography] industry as a carefree, windjammin' California boy. 2002Guardian (Nexis) 12 July (Friday Review section) 5 A relentlessly priapic exerciser of casting-couch droit de seigneur (he learned his pitiless, almost neurotic cocksmanship under the tutelage of Charles and Sidney Chaplin). |