英语词汇“cocksy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

cocksy

释义

cocksy, coxy, a.|ˈkɒksɪ|
[app. f. cock n.¹: cf. tricksy and cocky.]
Self-important, saucy, impudent, ‘bumptious’, cocky. (Mostly a schoolboy's word.) Hence ˈcoxiness.
1728Ramsay Gen. Mistake 199 Yon little coxy wight that makes sic wark With tongue and gait.1825Jamieson Suppl., Cocksie, affecting airs of importance (Lanarks.); synon. with Cocky.1846Landor Imag. Conv. II. 229 More blustering and cocksy.1857S. Osborn Quedah xxiv. 345 A stiff and cocksy-looking handkerchief fluttered around his..erect hair.1857Hughes Tom Brown i. viii, He's the coxiest young blackguard in the house.1883F. Anstey Vice Versa iv. 71. 1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare 479 They wouldn't believe me; they said I was coxy about it.
1859Payn Foster Brothers viii. 129 ‘Cheek’ and ‘coxiness’.1881Pall Mall G. 11 Apr. 11/1 White planters grumble..about his [the negro's] laziness, his thieving propensities, and his illimitable coxiness.

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