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Definition of Cock-a-hoop
1. Adjective. Exhibiting self-importance. "Big talk"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Boastfulness, Brag
Definition of Cock-a-hoop
1. Adjective. Exultant, very happy, triumphant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cock-a-hoop
Literary usage of Cock-a-hoop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"cock-a-hoop would thus be the original expression, and cock-on-the-hoop a ...
The only questions are, when did cock-a-hoop first come into use,* and were ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"John Clay agen ! nay then—set COCK-A- HOOP : I have lost no daughter, ...
'Our Foreign News Summary.1 All tne cock-a-hoop BEYS in the Sultan's dominions ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"cock-a-hoop. The E. phrase is used to denote a bumper, Fife. One, who is half
seas over, is also said to be cock-a-hoop, ibid. ; which is nearly akin to the ..."
4. Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1884)
"The phrase, " cock-a-hoop "'—which occurs in " Romeo and Juliet " (i. ... Some,
however, consider the term cock-a-hoop' refers to the boastful crowing of ..."
5. The Birds of Shakespeare by James Edmund Harting (1871)
"The origin of the phrase " cock-a-hoop," which occurs in Romeo and Juliet, Act i.
Se. 5, is very doubtful : the passage is— " You'll make a mutiny among my ..."
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