Meaning

Overly confident; arrogant and boastful..

Definitions by Sense

1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
2. (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.
3. (informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo.
4. (also attributively) Clipping of cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
5. (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.

Example Sentences

And now I think I may be cocky, / Since fortune has ſmurtl'd on me, / I'm Jenny, an' ye ſhall be Jockie, / 'Tis right we together ſud be; [...]

Pretty girls, indeed, can with impunity, menace their lovers with quitting them; but cocky Waithman, will, if he try it often, soon find, that he cannot play such tricks without having to repent of it.

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

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.

When Yvette came out of the bathroom, I said baby turn on the cd player. For what the only singing you gonna hear is your own when I get up in you. She's getting cockey I thought.

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

No more being cockie. This is, as of now, an official operation. I do not take anymore chances for foolish reasons. I have to do this job absolutely right the first time. This is the only shot any of us are going to have, I'm afraid.

Word Forms

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

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