cocky

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.

Adjective

• Arrogantly self-confident or conceited.

Examples

• After playing two bingos in a row, the Scrabble player became quite cocky.

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

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