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Webster 1913 Edition
Cocksure
Cock′sureˊ
,Adj.
1.
Perfectly safe.
[Obs.]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.
Shakespeare
2.
Quite certain.
[Colloq.]
I thought myself
cocksure
of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.
3.
overconfident; – of people;
as, the team was so
. cocksure
of winning that they didn’t practice in the week before the big game.[Colloq.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Cocksure
COCKSURE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
cocksure
cocksure
English
Adjective
cocksure (comparative more cocksure, superlative most cocksure)
- (informal) too confident; overconfident
- I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. — Alexander Pope.
- 1906, John Galsworthy, The Man of Property, preface
- 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.
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, The Main Street, chapter 23
- These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
Translations
overconfident
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