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adjective
- 1. conceited or confident in a bold or cheeky way: "we were young, brash, cocky—we knew everything"
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COCKY definition: 1. very confident, usually in a way that is slightly annoying: 2. very confident, usually in a way…. Learn more.
1. : boldly or brashly self-confident. a cocky young actor. he is invariably a smug and cocky stuffed shirt James Thurber. 2. : jaunty. cockily. ˈkä-kə-lē. adverb. cockiness. ˈkä-kē-nəs. noun. Synonyms. arch. audacious. bold-faced. brash. brassbound. brassy. brazen-faced. cheeky.
adjective. informal usually disapproving us / ˈkɑː.ki / uk / ˈkɒk.i / Add to word list. very confident, usually in a way that is slightly annoying: Let's not get too cocky—things could still go wrong. When I got my first job I was just a cocky teenager. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. certain of your abilities or value.
Cocky means "overly self-confident," like a cocky announcement at the beginning of the season that your soccer team will win the championship without even trying. Cocky originally meant "lecherous," or lustful, but evolved to mean "arrogantly pert" in the 1700s.
Cocky definition: arrogant; pertly self-assertive; conceited; He walked in with a cocky air.. See examples of COCKY used in a sentence.
Someone who is cocky is so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people. He was a little bit cocky when he was about 11 because he was winning everything. American English : cocky / ˈkɒki /
Definition of cocky adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Jauntily conceited or overbearing; self-confident in an aggressive or swaggering way. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: saucy. brash. presumptuous. pert. jaunty. hotdogging. egotistical. crouse. conceited. (slang) pert. arrogant. cocksure. noun.
COCKY meaning: confident in an annoying way. Learn more.
See synonyms for: cocky cockier cockiest cockiness on Thesaurus.com adjective, cock·i·er, cock·i·est. arrogant ; pertly self-assertive; conceited ; He walked in with a cocky air.
