Cocksure

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 1 C! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:34:26

Cock"sure` (?), a.

1.

Perfectly safe.

[Obs.]

We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak.

2.

Quite certain.

[Colloq.]

I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

 

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