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coxy

a. (context obsolete English) cocky

Usage examples of "coxy".

You may talk o' these things for hours on end, and you'll only be all the more coxy and conceited for't.

The word "gentleman" had a spell for Adam, and, as he often said, he "couldn't abide a fellow who thought he made himself fine by being coxy to's betters.