a. [f. prec. + -IC.] = next.
1784. Morning Post. Its greatest beauties have been selected and condemned with all the assurance of coxcombic pertness.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 568. The coxcombic strut, the ignorant pretence and shallow senselessness, of some … writers.
1879. Reynolds’s Newspaper, 21 Sept., 3/1. That feeble-minded, self-opinionated, coxcombic mixture of imbecility, assurance, and inordinate self-esteem.
