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cocky | conceit |

As nouns the difference between cocky and conceit

is that cocky is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" while conceit is something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

As an adjective cocky

is overly confident, arrogant and boastful.

As a verb conceit is

to form an idea; to think.

cocky

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(cockies)
  • Abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" .
  • * 2005 August 5, The World Today: Town seeks environmental accreditation , radio programme, transcript,
    • Visit the local store at Coles Bay and you?re greeted by a talking cocky called Jim.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cockatoo farmer.
  • * 1907 , , Human Toll , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607531,
    • ‘We camped one evening at Narrangidgery Creek, close b? a cocky ?s ?umstead.’
  • * 1946 , , My Career Goes Bung , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900281,
    • 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.
  • * 2001 November 19, Shelley Horton, Media Dimensions: Episode 15 , TV programme, transcript,
    • And stories in the bush may not seem relevant in the big smoke, but try telling that to a cocky .
  • * 2010 , Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda , unnumbered page,
    • Now — well, Moura was scarcely Drinkwater, but it was more than just a cocky farm too.
  • (New Zealand, informal) A sheep farmer.
    • 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 farmer
    Derived terms
    (farmer) boss cocky, cocky's joy

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Overly confident, arrogant and boastful.
  • * 1881 November 29, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Letter to William George Aston'', 2008, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Ian Ruxton (editor), ''Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918 , page 66,
    • Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier' and ' cockier .
  • * 2008 , Gerard Thomas, Nightwarrior Chronicles: All Girls? Team , page 85,
    • The confidence that was temporarily humbled now returned with a cockier attitude.
  • * 2011 , Melanie Harvey, Indispensable Friendship & Death Collide , page 204,
    • 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 also

    conceit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12
    • a man wise in his own conceit
  • The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
    • a man of quick conceit
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
  • Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
  • (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
  • * 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
    • By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .
  • (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
  • * L'Estrange
    • On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
  • * Dryden
    • Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
  • (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
  • (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
  • * Cotton
    • Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
  • Design; pattern.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * conceited * conceitedly * conceitedness * self-conceit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
  • * 1643 : , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
    • Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
  • (obsolete) To conceive.
  • * South
    • The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive as if they really were so.
  • * Shakespeare
    • One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.

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