Crossword clues for cocksure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cocksure \Cock"sure`\, a.
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Perfectly safe. [Obs.]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.
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Quite certain. [Colloq.]
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me.
--Pope. overconfident; -- of people; as, the team was so cocksure of winning that they didn't practice in the week before the big game.. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context informal English) too confident; overconfident
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Cocksure is a novel by Mordecai Richler. It was first published in 1968 by McClelland and Stewart.
A satirical work, the novel centres on Mortimer Griffin, a middle-class Anglican from Caribou, Ontario who has built a successful career as a publisher and editor in 1960s London, England. When a Hollywood mogul buys Griffin's publishing house, Griffin is suddenly forced to confront the potential impact that not being Jewish may have on his career and his sex life.
In Ninety-nine Novels, Anthony Burgess named Cocksure one of his personal selections for the best novels of the previous four decades. The novel was also selected for competition in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by comedian Scott Thompson.
The book caused a sensation when it was declared by some as obscene and was banned by W H Smith in Britain as well as by stores in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa.
Cocksure is the fourth album by Laura Stevenson. The album was released by Don Giovanni Records on October 30, 2015. A music video for her song “Jellyfish” was premiered on the AV Club website on the album's day of release.
Usage examples of "cocksure".
Field involved two horses belonging to Luke Lambert, a coarse, cocksure man whom Adams did not like.
Him from the cocksure way in which they tell you what He says and means.
Of all the arrogant, cocksure, conceited men I have ever encountered, you are the worst trying to protect me!
She would not respond to him, not to the way the breeze riffled his sleek raven hair, not to the way his damnably compelling eyes glowed as they caressed her face, not to that cocksure tilt of his head, nor that mischievous-little boy grin dimpling his cheeks.
Hamos Pahpahs, twenty-two and head strong, cocksure of Ehleenee arms and his own prowess and abilities, had overridden the advice and objections of older and wiser heads and allowed himself and his small command to be tricked into open battle against far superior barbarian forces and annihilated, less than a month after his father had left him.
Watson so cocksure as that, Isaac Yeomans coughs and spits, maybe more loud and disgusted than we might have wanted.
Certainly is funny how many people talk like they had a private telegraph-wire running right up to the throne of God, and you'd think they had special messages from Him from the cocksure way in which they tell you what He says and means.
And I don't want to sound cocksure, but maybe my recommendation is worth more than the Prince's?
But being cocksure, or at least looking that way, isn't a bad thing in a leader.
So cocksure was Manos of the invincibility of his army, that he had vetoed a mercenary leader's suggestion that outriders be posted at van, flanks and rear.
What are the chances, however, in spite of our apparently well-founded faith, that some bristle-headed local chemist with a fighting chin will not spring up at an arsenic-poisoning trial and, with new facts about the substance, blow to pieces the cocksure evidence of the leading expert in pathology?
The English lover tossed his head and affricated petulantly against his alveolum, then turned up the music -- a sexy cocksure American male voice singing, against a Mahlerian orchestra, thin dull café society songs of the `thirties.
But flatworms don't matter, coincidences don't matter, no mundane proof matters: There is no proof that some cocksure psychiatrist could not explain away as coincidence, or déjà vu, or self-delusion.
But flatworms don’t matter, coincidences don’t matter, no mundane proof matters: There is no proof that some cocksure psychiatrist could not explain away as coincidence, or déjà vu, or self-delusion.
He believed in aggressive, creative campaigns, and was so cocksure about everything that a lot of people, especially in a down-home place like Arkansas, found him hard to take.