cock·sure /ˈkɑkˈʃʊr/
(a.)確信的,深信的,獨斷的
Cock·sure a.
1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. --Shak.
2. Quite certain. [Colloq.]
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. --Pope.
3. overconfident; -- of people; as, the team was so cocksure of winning that they didn't practice in the week before the big game.. [Colloq.]
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cocksure
adj : marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure
materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to
speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more
positive he gets" [syn: overconfident, positive]