cocky
音标：
英音/ ˈkɒki / 美音/ ˈkɑːki /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
“They’re a nuisance aren’t they?” he says as he flaps his arms at them, the leader of the pack bouncing cockily out of his reach.
“他们很麻烦，不是吗？”他一边说，一边向它们挥舞着手臂，狼群中的领头者骄傲地跳到了他够不到的地方。
—BBC
There’s a genial older woman, a cocky student, a middle-aged policeman, an Italian and a flamboyant man in a waistcoat.
其中有一位和蔼可亲的老妇人、一位傲慢的学生、一位中年警察、一位意大利人和一位穿着马甲的浮夸男人。
—BBC
Emily said that Adam’s pronounced confidence “didn’t come off as cocky to me at all,” and that it made her feel comfortable.
艾米丽说，亚当明显的自信“对我来说一点也不自大”，这让她感到很舒服。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
adjective
overly self-confident or self-assertive
自大的；骄傲的；过于自信的
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
Cocky originally meant “lecherous,” or lustful, but evolved to mean “arrogantly pert” in the 1700s. Cocky people don’t usually stop at bragging about themselves — they’ll cut you in line at the grocery store, because they think they are too important to wait. Synonyms for cocky are conceited, egotistical, and the phrase “full of himself/herself.”
Cocky 的意思是“过于自信”，就像在赛季开始时趾高气扬地宣布你的足球队将不费吹灰之力就赢得冠军一样。
长释义：
Cocky originally meant “lecherous,” or lustful, but evolved to mean “arrogantly pert” in the 1700s. Cocky people don’t usually stop at bragging about themselves — they’ll cut you in line at the grocery store, because they think they are too important to wait. Synonyms for cocky are conceited, egotistical, and the phrase “full of himself/herself.”
Cocky 最初的意思是“好色的”或“好色的”，但在 1700 年代演变为“傲慢的”的意思。自大的人通常不会停止吹嘘自己——他们会在杂货店插队，因为他们认为自己太重要了，不能等待。趾高气扬的同义词有自负、自负和短语“自以为是”。
文学例句：
Jesse Little Horse simply grinned in that cocky, mocking way he had.
小马杰西只是以他一贯的傲慢、嘲讽的方式微笑着。
—In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III
“Not so cocky now,” the Boo Hag snarls.
“现在不那么自大了，”巫婆咆哮道。
—The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
Those two boys had always been so cocky at school, afraid of nothing.
这两个男孩在学校里一直都是那么嚣张，什么都不怕。
—Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
词源：
cocky (adj.)”arrogantly pert,” 1768; originally “lecherous” (1540s); from cock (n.1) + -y (2). Related: Cockiness.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
趾高气扬（形容词）“傲慢自大”，1768 年；最初是“好色的”（1540年代）；来自公鸡 (n.1) + -y (2)。相关：自大。相关条目及更多
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