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cock-sure

cock-sure is the alternative form of cocksure.

Meaning of cocksure

Adjective

cocksure (comparative more cocksure, superlative most cocksure)

  1. (informal) Too confident; overconfident.
    • I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.1716, Alexander Pope, letter to the Earl of Burlington

Forms of cock-sure

comparativemore cock-sure
superlativemost cock-sure

Questions about cock-sure

What is cock-sure the alternative form of?
Cock-sure is the alternative form of cocksure.

Words near cock-sure in the dictionary

  1. cock-stands
  2. cock-sucka
  3. cock-suckah
  4. cock-sucker
  5. cock-suckers
  6. cock-sure
  7. cock-tease
  8. cock-teaser
  9. cock-teasers
  10. cock-teases
  11. cock-tip

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