Cocky

Quick meaning: Cocky is an adjective meaning Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

Meaning

Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

More Meanings

1. (informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo.
2. (also attributively) Clipping of cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
3. (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.
4. (chiefly British, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.

Example Sentences

The confidence that was temporarily humbled now returned with a cockier attitude.

Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier and cockier.

I wasn't the least bit proud. I dare say I was one of the least cocky creatures in existence these days.

You are a cockie chap to go again a man axing where and what you 'a been when you are axing a place, [...]

Word Forms

• cockier
• cockiest
• cockey
• cockie
• cockies
• cockying
• cockied

Synonyms for cocky

Depending on context, synonyms include airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assertive, presumptuous, arrogant, pretentious, conceited, proud.

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