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cocksure | cocksureness |

As an adjective cocksure

is (informal) too confident; overconfident.

As a noun cocksureness is

the state or condition of being cocksure.

cocksure

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) too confident; overconfident
    • I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. — Alexander Pope.
  • * 1906 , John Galsworthy,
    • The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.
  • *1920 , Sinclair Lewis, The Main Street ,
  • *:These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.

    • cocksureness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the state or condition of being cocksure