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Definition of Cocksure
1. Adjective. Marked by excessive confidence. "The less he knows the more positive he gets"
Similar to: Confident
Derivative terms: Cocksureness, Overconfidence, Positiveness
Definition of Cocksure
1. a. Perfectly safe.
Definition of Cocksure
1. Adjective. (informal) too confident; overconfident ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cocksure
1. certain [adj] - See also: certain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocksure
Literary usage of Cocksure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"... he is absolutely cocksure in his views, especially when settling for all time
a great religious or moral problem. Young students, we are told, ..."
2. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"cocksure' Cook, in proclaiming his ' Christian certainties,' exhibited an almost
archi- episcopal scorn of, and indifference to, all other certainties and ..."
3. The Racing Calendar by National Hunt Committee, London (1879)
"Mr JR Leahy - Î to I agst Argentine, and 3 to 1 agst cocksure. ... Won by a
length, the same between the second and third; Modesty and cocksure fell. ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1902)
"G. Wither, Abuses, &-c., II., iv. 1613. When the devil had once brought Christ
to the Crosse he thought all cocksure.—Latimer, Sermon on the ..."
5. An Onlookers̓ Note-book by George William Erskine Russell (1902)
"In all departments of life and thought the cocksure seemed to have possessed the
earth. ... The cocksure found an excellent opportunity in the confusion and ..."
6. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"cocksure. This expression, which is now obsolescent and vulgar, was formerly in
general use ... Whiles the red hat doth endure, He maketh himself cocksure. ..."
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