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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.