cocksure
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Adjective [edit]
cocksure (comparative more cocksure, superlative most cocksure)
- (informal) too confident; overconfident
- I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. — Alexander Pope.
- 1906, John Galsworthy, The Man of Property, preface
- The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, The Main Street, chapter 23
- These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
Translations [edit]
overconfident
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