English-Thai Dictionary

cocksure

ADJ มั่นใจ มาก (จน ดูเหมือน ดื้อดึง  man-jai-mak

 

cocksure

ADJ แน่นอน  certain sure nae-non

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COCKSURE

a.Confidently certain.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COCKSURE

COCKSURE Cock "sure `, 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cocksure

cock sure |ˈkäkˈSHo͝or ˈˌkɑkˈˌʃʊ (ə )r | ▶adjective presumptuously or arrogantly confident. DERIVATIVES cock sure ly adverb, cock sure ness noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from archaic cock (a euphemism for God ) + sure; later associated with cock 1 .

 

Oxford Dictionary

cocksure

cock |sure |kɒkˈʃɔː, kɒkˈʃʊə | ▶adjective confident in an excessive or arrogant way. DERIVATIVES cocksurely adverb, cocksureness noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from archaic cock (a euphemism for God ) + sure; later associated with cock 1 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

cocksure

cocksure adjective he won't be so cocksure when he gets in the ring with our boy: arrogant, conceited, overweening, overconfident, cocky, proud, vain, self-important, egotistical, presumptuous; smug, patronizing, pompous; informal high and mighty, puffed up. ANTONYMS modest.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cocksure

cocksure adjective he made a change from the cocksure men she usually met: arrogant, conceited, overconfident, overweening, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious, disdainful, lofty, patronizing, proud, vain, vainglorious, self-important, swollen-headed, egotistical, presumptuous, lordly, pompous, blustering, boastful, brash, self-assertive, opinionated, bold, forward, insolent; informal high and mighty, throwing one's weight about /around, uppish; rare hubristic. ANTONYMS modest, diffident.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cocksure

c ò ck s ú re 形容詞 1 ｟くだけて やや古 ｠自信過剰の, 自信満々の .2 «…を » 信じきっている «of » ; 確かな .