Definitions
Too confident in oneself.
Word origin
From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
Used in a sentence
“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, [...]”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Overconfident”5 letters
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