cocky

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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; [...]”

2. isim Used 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?].”

3. isim A familiar name for a cockatoo.

   “"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.”

4. isim Clipping of cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.

   “'I'll get down among the cockies along the Lachlan or some of those rivers,' said Mitchell, throwing down his swag beneath a big tree. 'A man stands a better show down there. [...] One cocky I worked for wanted me to stay with him for good. Sorry I didn't. [...']”

5. fiil To operate a small-scale farm.

   “I remained about a year, cockying, clearing land, and herd-recording as a servant of the Department of Agriculture.”