Cocksure /(?)/
Cock·sure
Cocksure
a.
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Perfectly safe. [Obs.]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.
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Quite certain. [Colloq.]
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me.
- overconfident; -- of people; as, the team was so cocksure of winning that they didn't practice in the week before the big game.. [Colloq.]