cocksy

“a little chap only about my own age, but looking as "cocksy" as you please.”

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant

“Even the petticoated torch-bearers from rotten Rome, who lighted the faggots in Smithfield some years before, if more blustering and cocksy, were less bitter and vulturine.”

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843

“Even the petticoated torchbearers from rotten Rome, who lighted the faggots in Smithfield some years before, if more blustering and cocksy, were less bitter and vulturine.”

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection

“And again he discerned a phantom self, this time a humble supplicant for an extension of term, brought up short against Ocock’s stony visage, flouted by his cocksy clerk.”

Australia Felix