Meaning

1 senses
  1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

    arrogant, frech

    зано́счивыйzanósčivyj, де́рзкийdérzkij, наха́льныйnaxálʹnyj

    overly self-confident or self-assertive

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Let's not get cocky.

    ruДавайте не будем зазнаваться. — odexed

  2. Don't get too cocky.

    ruНе слишком зазнавайся. — Inego

    deWerd nicht zu übermütig. — wolfgangth

  3. Tom is cocky.

  4. Alberto was feeling brave and cocky.

  5. Don't you get cocky on me, now.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
overly confident:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
overly confident:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

cockier, cockiest
Comparativecockier Lesson
Superlativecockiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

66 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcockiness
Derivedcockily

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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