英:['kɒkɪlɪ]
美:['kɒkɪlɪ]
英:['kɒkɪlɪ]
美:['kɒkɪlɪ]
adjective
boldly or brashly self-confident he is invariably a smug and cocky stuffed shirt—James Thurber
a cocky young actor
jaunty
see cock >entry 1
The first known use of cocky was in 1768
cockleburnoun
any of a genus of plants that have prickly fruits and are related to the thistlesalso: one of its fruits
cockle1 of 2noun
any of several weeds of grain fields
cockle2 of 2noun
an edible mollusk with a ribbed two-valved shell
cockleshell
cock1 of 4noun
the adult male of a bird and especially the domestic chicken
a device (as a faucet or valve) for controlling the flow of a liquid
the cocked position of the hammer of a firearm
a rifle at half cock
cock2 of 4verb
to draw back the hammer of (a gun) in readiness for firing
cock a pistol
to set or draw back in readiness for some action
cock your arm to throw
to turn, tip, or tilt upward or to one side
cock one's head
cock3 of 4noun
tilt entry 2 sense 4, slant
a cock of the head
cock4 of 4noun
a small pile (as of hay)
cockyadjective
being too sure of oneself
jaunty
cockyadjective
being too sure of oneself
jaunty
1 Don't get too cocky about your chances of getting the job.
2 a cocky young actor who thought that he was God's gift to the theater
3 In other words: Don’t get too cocky, U.S. stock bulls.
4 Rumors of a sequel have been swirling since Christopher McDonald, who played Sandler's cocky rival Shooter McGavin in the 1996 original, said in a March interview that a script was in the works.