cocky

cocky

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  1. tärkeilevä, pöyhkeä, kopea, ylimielinen

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cocky

  1. itsevarma, vakuuttava, itsetietoinen, itserakas, kopea, pöyhkeä, ylimielinen.

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itserakas, ylimielinen, kopea, pöyhkeä Abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky".
2005 August 5, The World Today: Town seeks environmental accreditation, w:Australian Broadcasting Commission|Australian Broadcasting Commission radio programme, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1431391.htm transcript,

Visit the local store at Coles Bay and you′re greeted by a talking cocky called Jim.
puhekieltä A cockatoo farmer.
1907, w:Barbara Baynton|Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607531h.html Gutenberg Australia eBook 0607531,
‘We camped one evening at Narrangidgery Creek, close b′ a cocky′s ′umstead.(..)
1946, w:Miles Franklin|Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900281.txt Gutenberg Australia eBook 0900281,
Burrawong was one of the larger stations in which much of the good land of the district was locked. The cockies usually had to follow the main road, but since the drought the owners had opened one of their permanent water-holes so that the poorer settlers could cart water to their homesteads.
2001 November 19, Shelley Horton, Media Dimensions: Episode 15, w:Australian Broadcasting Commission|Australian Broadcasting Commission TV programme, http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/media/transcripts/s420757.htm transcript,
And stories in the bush may not seem relevant in the big smoke, but try telling that to a cocky.
2010, Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q3rwbG0oVSAC&pg=PT415&dq=%22cocky%22 %22cockies%22+farm+-intitle:%22cocky%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZZMsT6fpIIy6iAfVk8HwDg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22cocky%22|%22cockies%22%20farm%20-intitle%3A%22cocky%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,
Now — well, Moura was scarcely Drinkwater, but it was more than just a cocky farm too.
puhekieltä A sheep farmer.
Overly confident, arrogant and boastful.
1881 November 29, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Letter to William George Aston, 2008, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Ian Ruxton (editor), Sir Ernest Satows Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918'', http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Xg6RgEkbFsgC&pg=PA66&dq=%22cockier%22 %22cockiest%22+-intitle:%22cocky%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RfosT--gIemeiAeYtODxDg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22cockier%22|%22cockiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22cocky%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 66,
Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier and cockier.
2008, Gerard Thomas, Nightwarrior Chronicles: All Girls′ Team, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=49i-YGO1O80C&pg=PA85&dq=%22cockier%22 %22cockiest%22+-intitle:%22cocky%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RfosT--gIemeiAeYtODxDg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22cockier%22|%22cockiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22cocky%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 85,
The confidence that was temporarily humbled now returned with a cockier attitude.
2011, Melanie Harvey, Indispensable Friendship & Death Collide, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=D2F3d7rxkz0C&pg=PA204&dq=%22cockier%22 %22cockiest%22+-intitle:%22cocky%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RfosT--gIemeiAeYtODxDg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22cockier%22|%22cockiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22cocky%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 204,
You smiling your oh-so-perfect smile and me with the biggest, cockiest grin on my face you can ever imagine. I would have been the cockiest man alive that night knowing you were going home with me.

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