Cocky vs Bold - What's the difference?
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Abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" .
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(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cockatoo farmer.
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(New Zealand, informal) A sheep farmer.
Overly confident, arrogant and boastful.
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Courageous, daring.
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(of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
Presumptuous.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
To make (a font or some text) bold.
(obsolete) To make bold or daring.
(obsolete) To become bold.
(Webster 1913)
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Bold is a synonym of cocky.
As nouns the difference between cocky and bold
is that cocky is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" while bold is a dwelling; habitation; building.As adjectives the difference between cocky and bold
is that cocky is overly confident, arrogant and boastful while bold is courageous, daring.As a verb bold is
to make (a font or some text) bold.cocky
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
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- Visit the local store at Coles Bay and you?re greeted by a talking cocky called Jim.
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- ‘We camped one evening at Narrangidgery Creek, close b? a cocky ?s ?umstead.’
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- Burrawong was one of the larger stations in which much of the good land of the district was locked. The cockies usually had to follow the main road, but since the drought the owners had opened one of their permanent water-holes so that the poorer settlers could cart water to their homesteads.
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- And stories in the bush may not seem relevant in the big smoke, but try telling that to a cocky .
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- Now — well, Moura was scarcely Drinkwater, but it was more than just a cocky farm too.
Usage notes
* (farmer) In both Australia and New Zealand, forms such as sheep cocky'' (sheep farmer) and ''cow cocky'' (dairy farmer) exist. In New Zealand, ''cocky'' is often synonymous with ''sheep cocky , due to the relative importance of the industry.Synonyms
* (bird) birdie * (farmer) crofter; see also farmerDerived terms
(farmer) boss cocky, cocky's joyEtymology 2
From .Adjective
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- Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier' and ' cockier .
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- The confidence that was temporarily humbled now returned with a cockier attitude.
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- You smiling your oh-so-perfect smile and me with the biggest, cockiest' grin on my face you can ever imagine. I would have been the ' cockiest man alive that night knowing you were going home with me.
Synonyms
* See alsobold
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .Adjective
(boldness) (er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
- even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
Synonyms
* (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
