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单词
cocksure
释义
cocksure
cock‧sure
/
ˌkɒkˈʃʊə
$
ˌkɑːkˈʃʊr
/
adjective
old-fashioned
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
cocksure
Origin:
1500-1600
cock
word used to avoid saying
‘God’
(14-19 centuries)
+
sure
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
She sounds confident, but not
cocksure
.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Berton was a powerful personality, a
cocksure
businessman with a fast-talking line in hard sell.
too confident of your abilities or knowledge, in a way that is annoying to other people
:
He seemed rather too cocksure for my liking.
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