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cocksy

cocksy is the alternative form of coxy.

Meaning of coxy

Adjective

coxy (comparative coxier, superlative coxiest)

  1. (obsolete) Cocky.
    • He's the coxiest young blackguard in the house—I always told you so.1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 202

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Forms of cocksy

comparativemore cocksy
superlativemost cocksy

Questions about cocksy

What is cocksy the alternative form of?
Cocksy is the alternative form of coxy.

Words near cocksy in the dictionary

  1. cocksurenesses
  2. cocksurety
  3. cockswain
  4. cockswains
  5. cocksweat
  6. cocksy
  7. cocktail
  8. cocktail ant
  9. cocktail bar
  10. cocktail bars
  11. cocktail cabinet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cocksy (page history and authors); coxy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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