COCKSURE

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Perfectly safe. [Obs.] We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak.

2.
a.

Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.


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