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adjective

Cocksure adj.

Perfectly safe. (Obs.) "We steal as in a castle, cocksure:... we walk invisible."

Quite certain. (Colloq.) "I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me."

Overconfident; of people; as, the team was so cocksure of winning that they didn't practice in the week before the big game.. (Colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cocksure" Quotes from Famous Books

... angry she called her father an "old country Jake." Even she did not know how rural he was or how he had oppressed the sophisticated travelers in the smoking-room of the sleeping-car with his cocksure criticisms of cities that he had never seen. He had condemned New York with all the mercilessness of a small-town superiority, and he had told funny stories that were as funny as the moss-bearded cypresses in a lone bayou. While he was denouncing ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... Anyhow, the girl got married. And Halarkenden, he ain't been around since. Leastaways, ain't had no letters for him." There was an undue silence, it appeared to the officials inside the window. "That all?" demanded Cocksure, thirsting to get ...

— August First • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray

... sisters had seemed to him miserable travesties of their sex compared with her. (There was one exception only, to this rule.) But now, what was he to think? She had shattered his faith. If she hadn't been "so cocksure of herself," he wouldn't have minded so much; but after all she had professed, to go and marry, and marry ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... say 'hopelessly,'" replied Thorndyke, as we took our places in the carriage, "though I expect the police are pretty cocksure. When ...

— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman

... the heartiness of Sydney Smith and the dainty fastidiousness of Matthew Arnold, and yet imitate neither. They have a quality, indeed, which is entirely their own and is entirely delightful. One of the things which is so charming about them is that they are authoritative without being cocksure. What could be more admirable than the passage which points out that Southey, "who lived almost entirely with domestic women, actually died in the belief that he was a poet"? The pathos of the situation, and the Olympian stroke delivered ...

— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

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