Cocky vs Cookie - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cocky and cookie

is that cocky is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" while cookie is (label) a small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).

As an adjective cocky

is overly confident, arrogant and boastful.

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

cookie

English

(wikipedia cookie)

Alternative forms

* (uncommon)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).

(label) A specifically American-style (l).

(label) A bun.

An (l), web cookie.

(label) A (l).

A young, attractive woman.

The female genitalia.

* 2009 , T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781409285816, unnumbered page:

Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie' .

* 2010 , Lennie Ross, Blow me , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781257133819, page 47:

If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.

* 2014 , (Nicki Minaj), "" (Clean Version), (w) :

Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.

Synonyms

* (cake) (l), (l) (qualifier)

Derived terms

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