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cocky

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Adjective

  1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

Noun

  1. Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
  2. A familiar name for a cockatoo.
  3. Clipping of cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.

Verb

  1. To operate a small-scale farm.

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