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Cocksure
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.