cock-a-loft, a. colloq.
[Formed by vague association with cock v.1, and such compounds as cockalorum, cock-a-hoop, cock-horse, cock-loft.]
Affectedly lofty, stuck up.
| 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. xii. (1862) 212 Some rubbishing cock-aloft notion of ‘doing right’! |