Cocky vs Swagger - 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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To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
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To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
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confidence, pride
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A bold, or arrogant strut.
A prideful boasting or bragging.
As nouns the difference between cocky and swagger
is that cocky is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" while swagger is confidence, pride.As an adjective cocky
is overly confident, arrogant and boastful.As a verb swagger is
to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.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 alsoswagger
English
Verb
(en verb)- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* swaggerer * swaggeringlyNoun
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