cocksure Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite marked by excessive confidence
    positive; overconfident.
    • an arrogant and cocksure materialist
    • so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
    • the less he knows the more positive he gets

WordNet


Cock"sure` adjective
Definitions
  1. Perfectly safe. Obs.
    We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak.
  2. Quite certain. Colloq.
    I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

Webster 1913