Cocky vs Rude - What's the difference?
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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,
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cockatoo farmer.
* 1907 , , Human Toll ,
* 1946 , , My Career Goes Bung ,
* 2001 November 19, Shelley Horton, Media Dimensions: Episode 15 , TV programme,
* 2010 , Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda ,
(New Zealand, informal) A sheep farmer.
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 ,
* 2008 , Gerard Thomas, Nightwarrior Chronicles: All Girls? Team ,
* 2011 , Melanie Harvey, Indispensable Friendship & Death Collide ,
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
As a noun cocky
is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" .As an adjective cocky
is overly confident, arrogant and boastful.As a proper noun rude is
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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 alsorude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject