Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cocksure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cocksure \Cock"sure`\, a.
1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk
invisible. --Shak.
2. Quite certain. [Colloq.]
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he
readily promised me. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cocksure
adj : marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure
materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to
speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more
positive he gets" [syn: {overconfident}, {positive}]
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