colloq. [f. COCKY a. + -NESS.] Cocky quality; self-assertiveness, conceit.
1841. Sporting Rev., 106. In a state of extreme excitement, full of pluck and very determined, but without that appearance of dash and cockiness which was their wont when their blood was up.
1864. J. D. Campbell, in Glasgow Citizen, 19 Nov. Cockiness is older than this century, in which it has been developed to so alarming an extent.
1883. St. James’s Gaz., 1 May, 3. The inconsiderate insolences and cockinesses of some of their friends.
