cocky

/ˈkɒki/

Etymology

From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).

cocky means overly confident; arrogant and boastful. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 70 out of 100.

cocky is pronounced /ˈkɒki/.

adj

Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.“And now I think I may be cocky, / Since fortune has ſmurtl'd on me, / I'm Jenny, an' ye ſhall be Jockie, / 'Tis right we together ſud be; [...]”

Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.“Nay Cocky, Cocky, nay dear Cocky, do not cry, I was but in Jeſt, I was not ifeck [in faith?].”
A familiar name for a cockatoo.“By that time, the white cockatoo—a beautiful bird, as large as a common fowl—would find out the family gathering-place, and waddle along, calling 'Pretty Cocky! Pretty Cocky!' […] Presently, Cocky ruffles his plumage till he looks half as large again as before; he throws his crest, with its double fan of brilliantly yellow feathers, as far forward as possible, and spreads and closes it rapidly.”

To operate a small-scale farm.“But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport.”