The word "cocky" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is excessively confident in their abilities, often in an inappropriate way. Example sentence: He was so cocky that he thought he could do no wrong.
He had some success with Jerry Lewis in the comedy Boeing Boeing (1965) and rejoined Edwards on The Great Race (1965), parodying his charismatic persona with a cocky grin and effortless charm.
It is, surely, a failure Then he gets cocky.
Noah, I'm afraid to say, is also rather boring, being that he is the typical cliche of a cocky, highly self-assured boy who is rather dull too.
Forget the kingfisher, mute swan or hen harrier, it has to be a magpie; loud, cocky, bit of a geezer, always on the lookout for something to nick, it fills its nest with cheap, gaudy tat and predates on its smaller neighbours.
But it was cocky to assume that smartness would magically be rewarded.
The two market leaders have also invested heavily to tart up their ageing cars and improve their image.Both Fiat and now Ford have already decided to follow the same path: Mr Nasser is cocky about Ford's European profits bouncing back this year.
He got cocky, too, offering to sell the whole Burmese crop to the United States for $12m; on his way to discuss the deal he was arrested in Thailand, deported, accused by the junta of treason and sentenced to death.
Islamists and secularists at one Hard to control the cocky gunmen May rival factions come together?
NOT so long ago, Alex Salmond, Scotland's cocky first minister, ebulliently predicted that his Scottish National Party SNPP) would win 20 of Scotland's 59 seats at Westminster in the general election due by June 3rd.
A famously gregarious entertainer and cocky marketer he proposes "CRM" for his ticker symbol, the equivalent of, say, Porsche asking for "CAR Mr Benioff finds it hard not to talk to journalists.
