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Cocksure

Cocksure Meaning & Definition
Cocksure Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cocksure?

[adj] marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cocksure: confident | overconfident | positive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cocksure: arrogant | assured | certain | confident | convinced | decided | determined | hubristic | overconfident | oversure | overweening | persuaded | poised | pompous | positive | proud | reassured | secure | self-assured | self-confident | self-important | self-reliant | sure | unafraid | undoubting | unfaltering | unhesitating | unwavering

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Cocksure In Webster's Dictionary

\Cock"sure`\, a. 1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.] We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. --Shak. 2. Quite certain. [Colloq.] I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. --Pope.

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