cocky
Meanings
Plural: cockies
Adjective Satellite
- overly self-confident or self-assertive
- "a very cocky young man"
Adj
- Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
Noun
- Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
- A familiar name for a cockatoo.
- Clipping of cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
Verb
- To operate a small-scale farm.
Origin / Etymology
From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
Synonyms
airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cockatoo, cocky, conceited, crofter, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 16
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