Cocky vs False - 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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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between cocky and false
is that cocky is overly confident, arrogant and boastful while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun cocky
is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" .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 alsofalse
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}