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cockycock‧y /ˈkɒki $ ˈkɑːki/ adjective informal   cockyOrigin: 1500-1600 ➔ COCK1 (2) - a cocky 15-year-old boy
- a cocky young lieutenant
- My brother can be a little bit cocky sometimes.
- She didn't come off well in the interview - she was a bit too cocky, a bit too sure of herself.
- A cocky, selfish veteran who loves nothing but his AK-47, Sacha is at home in the cynical ambience of combat.
- Another self portrait of a cocky young man.
- But Tranmere, cocky even before the equaliser, played with skill and tenacity.
- By this point I had become a cocky pilot on dry asphalt, but snow and ice were something else.
- Not cocky enough not to watch my speed, though, nor to keep looking in the rearview mirror.
- Oh, he got cocky and only applied to about five schools.
- The general seemed altogether too cocky.
too confident► overconfident too sure that you will succeed or win, often when you do not have the ability to do this: · Murray worried that the team was becoming overconfident. · As drivers, teenage boys are often overconfident and take stupid risks. ► cocky informal too confident about yourself and your abilities, especially in a way that annoys other people: · a cocky young lieutenant· My brother can be a little bit cocky sometimes.· She didn't come off well in the interview - she was a bit too cocky, a bit too sure of herself. ► brash someone who is brash is very confident in an annoying way, for example because they talk too loudly and never listen to other people: · The hotel bar was full of brash, noisy journalists.· a brash young salesman from New York too confident about yourself and your abilities, especially in a way that annoys other people:  He’s a cocky little man and I don’t like him.—cockily adverb—cockiness noun [uncountable] |