Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocksy
Literary usage of Cocksy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Tales from the Norse by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1912)
"Good day, Foxy-cocksy," said the Goose. ... Whither away, Foxy-cocksy ?" "
Whither away yourself ..."
2. The Churgress by Thomas De Longueville (1888)
"H. cocksy Cocksure. It is my pleasure as well as my privilege to admit that this
promising student of ecclesiastical history is so deeply read in my books, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"ote in Smithfield some years before, if more blustering and cocksy, were lei
bitter and vulturine. They were all intolerant, but they were not all ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by Sir John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles (1870)
"... constitute the defendant's title to indemnity; Byles on Bills, 5th American
edition, p. 2(18. (a) cocksy. ..."
5. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke (1764)
"The lame may be faid of cocksy hens, and the like; they are of the flying kind
in figure; in their manner of moving not very different from men and hearts. ..."
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