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cocksure

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1. a. Perfectly safe. Source: opted
2. a. Quite certain. Source: opted
3. adj. marked by excessive confidence Source: wordnet
4. 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. Source: webster
5. j:100 s. marked by excessive confidence Source: ecdict

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certain confidence excessive marked perfectly quite safe castle horse invisible myself Obs pope promised readily steal walk

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cocksocket cockspur cockspur hawthorn cockspur thorn cocksucka cocksuckah cocksuckahs

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