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cockish
cockish, a. (ˈkɒkɪʃ) [f. cock n.1 + -ish.] 1. Of or pertaining to a cock (obs.); now only humorous, cocklike.1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 161 Such [Hens] as after the Cockishe maner either crowe or treade. Ibid. iv. 158 [Hens] free from spurres: for such as weare those Cockish weapons,... Oxford English Dictionary
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coquet
▪ I. coquet, a. and n.1 (kəʊˈkɛt) [a. F. coquet, orig. n., dim. of coq cock, in reference to the strutting gait and amorous characteristics of the cock; hence ‘a beau’, and in the fem. coquette ‘a belle’; also as adj. ‘forward, wanton, gallant’: cf. cock v.1, also cockish, cocky a., and cocket a., w... Oxford English Dictionary
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cock-sure
cock-sure, a. (adv.) (kɒkˈʃʊə(r)) [According to the regular force of similar formations, e.g. stone-deaf, clay-cold, dog-sick, dirt-cheap, coal-black, etc., the sense ought to be ‘as sure as a cock’. The conjecture that there is some allusion to cockish, cocky, with reference to ‘pert self-confidenc... Oxford English Dictionary
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