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Definition: Cocksure |
CocksureAdjective1. Marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cocksure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Note: Cocksure \Cock"sure`\, adjective. 1. Perfectly safe. [Obsolete]. (references) |
Synonyms: CocksureSynonyms: overconfident (adj), positive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Belief | Adjective: believing; Verb: certain, sure, assured, positive,Adjective: believing; Verb: certain, sure, assured, positive, cocksure, satisfied, confident, unhesitating, convinced, secure. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cocksure |
| English words defined with "cocksure": overconfident ♦ positive. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Melbourne | I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Cocksure" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cocksure" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cocksure": be cocksure of smth. ♦ cocksure of oneself. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cocksure | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cocksure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i bindur në vete, i bindur (biddable, certain, committed, compliant, convinced, dedicated, docile, ductile, manageable, obedient, sequacious, submissive, well-behaved, wieldy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самоуверен (bold, independent, reliant, self confident, self-assertive, self-reliant, unflappable), неминуем (inescapable, inevitable, infallible), напълно уверен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 却信. (various references) | |
Czech | suverénní (confident, consummate, sovereign), sebejistý (assured, confident, self confident). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرافاده (Bigheaded, Snobbish, Snooty), غره , حتمی (Categorical, Cretain, Emergence, Emergency, Imminent, Imperative, Indispensable, Very). (various references) | |
German | völlig sicher (cocksurely), totensicher. (various references) | |
Greek | υπερβέβαιοσ (very certain). (various references) | |
Indonesian | amat yakin. (various references) | |
Manx | ro-yarrooagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocksurecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | convencido (cockish, cocky, conceited, convinced, coxy, smug, sure, vain), pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), inevitável (necessary, unavoidable), de ou relativo a convencido. (various references) | |
Romanian | sigur (absolute, absolutely, assuredly, certain, certainly, confident, convinced, decided, dependable, indeed, it must be, positive, reliable, reliant, safe, safely, secure, self confident, sound, steady, sterling, straight, sure, surely, tenacious, trustworthy, undeniable, undoubtedly, unequivocal), neîndoielnic (dependable, indubitable, past question, questionless, unmistakable), fudul (arrogant, conceited, priggish, purse proud), încrezut (arrogant, assertive, bumptious, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-conceited, self-important, stuck up, supercilious, uppish, vain). (various references) | |
Russian | самоуверенный (bold, bumptious, cocksy, cocky, confident, coxy, jumped-up, nervy, opinionated, perky, positive, reliant, self confident, self-assured, self-confident, self-opinionated). (various references) | |
Spanish | presuntuoso (bumptious, conceited, dasher, overweening, pontifical, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, upstart), presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, show off, smug, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), de seguridad (turnkey). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvärsäker (absolutely sure, positive). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendinden çok emin (cocky, overconfident, presuming, presumptuous, self-assertive), gayet emin, emin (assured, bailee, certain, clear, confident, confidential, deliberate, fiduciary, firm, good, in the bag, proof, reliable, responsible, safe, secure, sound, stanch, staunch, sure, trustworthy, trusty, unfaltering). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | упевнений (assured, certain, confident, convinced, masterful, reliant, secure, sure), самовпевнений (arrogant, assertive, assuming, assumptive, assured, bold, bumptious, calm, chesty, cocksy, confident, coxy, nervy, nose-wise, opinionated, opinioned, overconfident, overweening, perk, positive, presuming, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-assertive, self-assured, self-opinionated, upstart), неминучий (avoidless, foregone, imminent, ineluctable, inevitable, infallible, matter of course, necessary, pending, resistless, shunless, unavoidable, undeclinable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cocksure": cocksurely, cocksureness, cocksurenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Cocksure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cockbury. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-k-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cockers, recocks. | |
-2 letters: cercus, cerous, cocker, course, crocks, crocus, crouse, cruces, crucks, occurs, ockers, recock, soccer, source, succor, sucker. | |
-3 letters: ceros, cokes, cores, corks, corse, cosec, crock, crocs, cruck, cruse, cukes, cures, curse, cusec, ecrus, euros, occur, ocker, recks, rocks, roues, rouse, rucks, score, scour, secco, sucre. | |
-4 letters: cero, coke, core, cork, cors, croc. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-k-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: cockleburs, cocksurely. | |
+3 letters: cocksuckers, cuckoldries. | |
+4 letters: cocksureness, cupronickels. | |
+5 letters: backcountries, counterchecks, cuckooflowers. | |
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