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Definition of Cockiest
1. cocky [adj] - See also: cocky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockiest
Literary usage of Cockiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"... and he cocked up his tail, and he cocked up his two whisks at hie tail-end,
and, in short, he looked the cockiest little man of all little men. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"... but by common consent, both of the undergraduates, and such of the fellows as
had not forgotten the slang of former years, the “cheekiest” or “cockiest. ..."
3. Letters of Dr. John Brown by John Brown, Elizabeth T. McLaren (1907)
"... Turner—one in oil, Rembrandt's daughter, and the other in water, of a girl
and boy and hen and chickens with such a cockiest of gamecocks in the front. ..."
4. The Manitoba School Question: Being a Compilation of the Legislation, the by John Skirving Ewart (1894)
"As one argument, I suggested that possibly even the cockiest bigot might be wrong;
and I mentioned a few out of the millions of opinions that had already ..."
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