- 1囂張、跩、自以為很行
Too pleased with yourself and your abilities, especially in a way that gets on other people’s nerves. Informal. A cocky student answers before the question is finished; a cocky player shows off after an easy point. It is lighter than arrogant, more about the walk and the grin than a deep cold pride. Young people use it a lot. Sports talk can sound half-admiring — “he’s a cocky little winger” — though actually that still says the person is too much. Built from cock, the male chicken, plus -y: like a in the yard. Not as old-fashioned as , and this is the word you will hear. (There is also a noun cocky in Australian English for a farmer or a , but that is not this sense.)
組成cock (male chicken) + -y (having that quality).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cockyadj詞源 1/ˈkɒki/
- 1
Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
- And now I think I may be cocky, / Since fortune has ſmurtl'd on me, / I'm Jenny, an' ye ſhall be Jockie, / 'Tis right we together ſud be; [...]
- Pretty girls, indeed, can with impunity, menace their lovers with quitting them; but cocky Waithman, will, if he try it often, soon find, that he cannot play such tricks without having to repent of it.
cockynoun詞源 2/ˈkɒki/
- 1
datedUsed as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
- Nay Cocky, Cocky, nay dear Cocky, do not cry, I was but in Jeſt, I was not ifeck [in faith?].
- Lu[cretia]. Ah, ah, are we not by our ſelves already, my Cocky? So[phronius]. Let us go out of the Way ſomewhere, into a more private Place.
cockynoun詞源 3/ˈkɒki/
- 1
informalA familiar name for a cockatoo.
- By that time, the white cockatoo—a beautiful bird, as large as a common fowl—would find out the family gathering-place, and waddle along, calling 'Pretty Cocky! Pretty Cocky!' […] Presently, Cocky ruffles his plumage till he looks half as large again as before; he throws his crest, with its double fan of brilliantly yellow feathers, as far forward as possible, and spreads and closes it rapidly.
- "Hello Cocky! What yer want?" This in a more-than-human voice from a fine sulphur-crested cockatoo. "Hello Cocky!" His thick black tongue worked in his narrow mouth. So absolutely human the sound, and yet a bird's.
cockyverb詞源 3/ˈkɒki/
- 1
historicalinformalTo operate a small-scale farm.
- But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport.
- I remained about a year, cockying, clearing land, and herd-recording as a servant of the Department of Agriculture.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- cockatoo farmer
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