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cocksure

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8 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted ccekorsuStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Too confident in oneself.

Word origin

Probably from cock (“rooster”) + sure, early 16th c.

Used in a sentence

  • I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.
  • The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.
  • These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.

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