0 used to describe a young person who is confident in a way that is unpleasant and sometimes rude: --
1 too confident: --
Hugh is knowledgeable but not cocky.
With the world at large he's cocky, cheeky and good-humoured.
Homura has a cocky attitude and specializes in fire attacks, as well as being able to teleport in a fiery explosion.
He is now less cocky.
He was a man of about 38: normally robust, not to say "cocky" in his conduct and in his attitude in the relative freedom of the prison.
Good employers allow that, because employees facing a hearing can be scared and emotional—although some are cocky—and it is not pleasant to have to conduct such occasions.
They are not being cocky and understand that other people have not been as advantaged and may not have been able to do so.
They are usually rather cocky; they go about very arrogantly.
Youngsters who, outside, would have been cocky beyond belief get inside and realise that they have thrown their lives away.
