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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as cocky.

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Examples

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

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • 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 Various

  • 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 Walter Savage Landor 1819

  • 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 2003

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