Read full poem →-of the floor and shook herself in a low-down African
shimmying way. The mandolin player, a stocky, cocky
lad of brown-paper complexion, the lightest-skinned of
Dictionary Entry
Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “cocky”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.