cocksure : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cocksure	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cocksure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cocksure adj 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" Synonym(s): cocksure, overconfident, positive
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.