cocksure

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8

Definition of cocksure

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal)Too confident; overconfident.
    “I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.”
    “The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.”
    “These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.”

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Etymology

Probably from cock + sure, early 16th c.

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7-letter words

1 word

6-letter words

16 words

5-letter words

29 words

4-letter words

47 words

3-letter words

31 words

2-letter words

9 words

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