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Definition of Cockier
1. cocky [adj] - See also: cocky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockier
Literary usage of Cockier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Married—Charles William Doyle and Sophia Cramer: witness, John Cog- hill : St.
Geo. Han. Sq. ii. 257. cockier.—Occup. ' a cockier, a gatherer of cockles ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... and its affairs sink into insignificance before the interest of cockier or
shrimper. CHAPTER XVIII. CHEAM DENE AND THE BEACON ROCK. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"... whom cooky youngsters call " GREEN," and cockier ones (their rashness makes
me shudder as I munch my well-earned underdone chop) slap on the shoulder, ..."
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