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cocksure

adj

Etymology

Probably from cock + sure, early 16th c.

  1. derived from sēcūrus
  2. derived from seür
  3. derived from sur
  4. inherited from sure
  5. formed as cocksure — “cock + sure”

Definitions

  1. Too confident

    Too confident; overconfident.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA