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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cocksure \Cock"sure`\, a. 1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.] We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. --Shak. 2. Quite certain. [Colloq.] I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me --Pope. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cocksure adj : marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so bold and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets" [syn: {bold}, {overconfident}, {positive}]
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