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cocksure

cock·sure

uncommon informal

adjective

1.

marked by excessive confidence

  • “an arrogant and cocksure materialist”
  • “so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen”
  • “the less he knows the more positive he gets”

Origin

Probably from cock (“rooster”) + sure, early 16th c.

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