What is "cockily"

Usage examples of "cockily".

Kit might grunt every time he moved his wings, but his eyes gleamed and his crest was up cockily as he strutted over to open the camp when Scales got the soldiers walking again.

Tedwith his derby hat tipped cockily over one ear in what was meant to be an imitation of Ted Orping's swagger, listening to a lecture from his hero.

That American beauty would pull over and he would see a man behind the wheel, a man with a sunburned elbow cocked cockily out the window.

They let Mitford off at Camp Narrow and reluctantly collected a cockily grinning Dick Aarens, who was still festooned with his belt of tools and vest of pockets which bulged with unidentifiable lumps.

When Parlabane had called but refused to come to the station, she asked him to meet her in the Blue Moon, partly because the Barony's real ales would have offered a great temptation to dinnk on duty, and partly because she hoped it might give her an edge - Parlabane was Duncan's friend, but still, many straight men were less cockily assured in the context of a gay bar, pointlessly terrified that their usual attention-seeking behaviour would attract a string of burly, unwanted suitors.