English Explanatory Dictionary

cocky

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
noun
  1. Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
noun
  1. A familiar name for a cockatoo.
  2. Clipping of cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
verb
  1. To operate a small-scale farm.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɒk.i/ /ˈkɑ.ki/ /ˈkɔk.i/ En-au-cocky.oga

Word forms

cocky cockier cockiest cockey cockie cockies cockying cockied

Etymology

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

Synonyms

airy arrogant chesty authoritarian biggity big-headed blustery boastful bombastic buggish cocky conceited disdainful domineering egotistical entitled flatulent flaunting full of oneself glorious grandiose hankty haught haughty haut high-handed high-hat high and mighty highfalutin hoity-toity holier-than-thou hubristic hubristical imperious inflated insolent la-di-da orgulous 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

Derived words

cockily cockiness spud cocky boss cocky cocky apple cocky chaff cocky country cocky farmer cocky gate cocky's joy cow cocky sheep cocky
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