"cocky" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkɒki/ [New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɑki/ [General-American], /ˈkɔki/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cocky.oga [Australia] Forms: cockier [comparative], cockiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒki Etymology: From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’). Etymology templates: {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{suf|en|cock|y|id2=adjectival|pos2=suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’|t1=male domestic chicken}} cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’), {{sup|1}} ¹ Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} cocky (comparative cockier, superlative cockiest)
  1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: arrogant, cockie [rare] Translations (overly confident): ἀναιδής (anaidḗs) (Ancient Greek), ամբարտավան (ambartavan) (Armenian), մեծամիտ (mecamit) (Armenian), գոռոզ (goṙoz) (Armenian), дързък (dǎrzǎk) (Bulgarian), самонадеян (samonadejan) (Bulgarian), 驕傲 (Chinese Mandarin), 骄傲 (jiāo'ào) (Chinese Mandarin), 自大 (zìdà) (Chinese Mandarin), 太過自信的 (Chinese Mandarin), 太过自信的 (tàiguò zìxìn de) (Chinese Mandarin), 臭屁 (chòupì) (Chinese Mandarin), domýšlivý (Czech), namyšlený (Czech), suverénní (Czech), overmoedig (Dutch), aroganta (Esperanto), pöyhkeä (Finnish), kopea (Finnish), ylimielinen (Finnish), arrogant (French), suffisant (French), arrufado (Galician), arrogant (German), frech (German), ξιπασμένος (xipasménos) (Greek), αναιδής (anaidís) (Greek), pimasz (Hungarian), beképzelt pimasz (Hungarian), pongah (Indonesian), diongbháilte (Irish), sotalach (Irish), arrogante (Italian), impertinente (Italian), 横柄な (ōhei na) (alt: おうへいな) (Japanese), whakatamatama (Maori), whakapehapeha (Maori), whakatoatoa (Maori), whakatamarahi (Maori), arrogante (Portuguese), pretensioso [masculine] (Portuguese), зано́счивый (zanósčivyj) (Russian), де́рзкий (dérzkij) (Russian), наха́льный (naxálʹnyj) (Russian), высокоме́рный (vysokomérnyj) (english: arrogant) (Russian), хвастли́вый (xvastlívyj) (Russian), arrogante (Spanish), pedante (Spanish), chulo (Spanish), creído (Spanish), engreído (Spanish), petulante (Spanish), bravucón (Spanish), valentón (Spanish), kaxig (Swedish), mayabang (Tagalog), arrogante (Tagalog), asbag (Tagalog), kibirli (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-cocky-en-adj-bicBUc7U Disambiguation of People: 17 24 27 29 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cockey
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈkɒki/ [New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɑki/ [General-American], /ˈkɔki/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cocky.oga [Australia] Forms: cockies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒki Etymology: From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Etymology templates: {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{suf|en|cock|y|id2=diminutive|pos2=diminutive suffix|t1=male domestic chicken}} cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (diminutive suffix), {{sup|1}} ¹ Head templates: {{en-noun}} cocky (plural cockies)
  1. (chiefly British, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man. Tags: British, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated Categories (topical): Agriculture, People Derived forms: spud cocky
    Sense id: en-cocky-en-noun-JBp0lG5Q Disambiguation of Agriculture: 6 29 27 24 14 Disambiguation of People: 17 24 27 29 3 Categories (other): British English, Irish English, Newfoundland English, Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival), English terms suffixed with -y (diminutive), New Zealand English Disambiguation of Australian English: 6 33 15 15 32 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 33 24 23 10 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 34 35 16 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 31 31 19 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 7 36 31 16 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 7 35 30 18 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (diminutive): 6 41 27 16 9 Disambiguation of New Zealand English: 5 31 32 18 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cockey, cockie
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈkɒki/ [New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɑki/ [General-American], /ˈkɔki/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cocky.oga [Australia] Forms: cockies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒki Etymology: The noun is derived from cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun. Etymology templates: {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{suffix|en|cockatoo|y|alt1=cock(atoo)|pos2=diminutive suffix}} cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix), {{sup|2}} ², {{sup|2, 3}} ^(2, 3) Head templates: {{en-noun}} cocky (plural cockies)
  1. (informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, informal Categories (topical): Agriculture, People Categories (lifeform): Cockatoos
    Sense id: en-cocky-en-noun-f50HqcAM Disambiguation of Agriculture: 6 29 27 24 14 Disambiguation of People: 17 24 27 29 3 Disambiguation of Cockatoos: 5 19 30 24 21 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival), New Zealand English Disambiguation of Australian English: 6 33 15 15 32 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 34 35 16 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 31 31 19 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 7 36 31 16 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 7 35 30 18 10 Disambiguation of New Zealand English: 5 31 32 18 15
  2. (also attributively) Short for cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, also, alt-of, attributive, informal Alternative form of: cockatoo farmer (extra: (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land) Categories (topical): Agriculture, People Synonyms: cockatoo, crofter
    Sense id: en-cocky-en-noun-syVSe6ti Disambiguation of Agriculture: 6 29 27 24 14 Disambiguation of People: 17 24 27 29 3 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival), New Zealand English Disambiguation of Australian English: 6 33 15 15 32 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 34 35 16 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 31 31 19 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 7 36 31 16 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 7 35 30 18 10 Disambiguation of New Zealand English: 5 31 32 18 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cockey, cockie Derived forms: boss cocky, cocky apple, cocky chaff, cocky country, cocky farmer, cocky gate, cocky's joy, cow cocky, sheep cocky
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /ˈkɒki/ [New-Zealand, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɑki/ [General-American], /ˈkɔki/ [General-Australian] Audio: En-au-cocky.oga [Australia] Forms: cockies [present, singular, third-person], cockying [participle, present], cockied [participle, past], cockied [past]
Rhymes: -ɒki Etymology: The noun is derived from cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun. Etymology templates: {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{suffix|en|cockatoo|y|alt1=cock(atoo)|pos2=diminutive suffix}} cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix), {{sup|2}} ², {{sup|2, 3}} ^(2, 3) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cocky (third-person singular simple present cockies, present participle cockying, simple past and past participle cockied)
  1. (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm. Tags: Australia, historical, informal, intransitive Categories (topical): Agriculture Synonyms: cockatoo
    Sense id: en-cocky-en-verb-01Ll4sQR Disambiguation of Agriculture: 6 29 27 24 14 Categories (other): Australian English, Australian English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, New Zealand English Disambiguation of Australian English: 6 33 15 15 32 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 31 31 19 12 Disambiguation of New Zealand English: 5 31 32 18 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cockey
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier and cockier.",
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          "ref": "1996, Knut Hamsun, translated by Sverre Lyngstad, Hunger, Edinburgh: Canongate Books; republished Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2016",
          "text": "I wasn't the least bit proud. I dare say I was one of the least cocky creatures in existence these days.",
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          "ref": "2008, V. Montrell Jones, The Grass is Bluer on the Other Side, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 75",
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          "ref": "2008, Gerard Thomas, Nightwarrior Chronicles: All Girls′ Team, [Bloomington, Ind.]: AuthorHouse, page 85",
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          "ref": "2009, D. K. Hale, chapter 8, in Curiosity is Deadly, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 112",
          "text": "No more being cockie. This is, as of now, an official operation. I do not take anymore chances for foolish reasons. I have to do this job absolutely right the first time. This is the only shot any of us are going to have, I'm afraid.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Melanie Harvey, chapter 30, in Indispensable Friendship & Death Collide, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 204",
          "text": "You smiling your oh-so-perfect smile and me with the biggest, cockiest grin on my face you can ever imagine. I would have been the cockiest man alive that night knowing you were going home with me.",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "overly confident",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiāo'ào",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "骄傲"
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          "roman": "tàiguò zìxìn de",
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          "roman": "chòupì",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "臭屁"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "domýšlivý"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "namyšlený"
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          "sense": "overly confident",
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          "sense": "overly confident",
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "aroganta"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "pöyhkeä"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "kopea"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "ylimielinen"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrogant"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "suffisant"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrufado"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrogant"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "frech"
        },
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "xipasménos",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "ξιπασμένος"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "anaidís",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "αναιδής"
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          "roman": "anaidḗs",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "ἀναιδής"
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          "sense": "overly confident",
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          "sense": "overly confident",
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          "word": "diongbháilte"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "sotalach"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrogante"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "impertinente"
        },
        {
          "alt": "おうへいな",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ōhei na",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "横柄な"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "whakatamatama"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "whakapehapeha"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "whakatoatoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "whakatamarahi"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrogante"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "pretensioso"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zanósčivyj",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "зано́счивый"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dérzkij",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "де́рзкий"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "naxálʹnyj",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "наха́льный"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "arrogant",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vysokomérnyj",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "высокоме́рный"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "xvastlívyj",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "хвастли́вый"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrogante"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "pedante"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "chulo"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "creído"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "engreído"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "petulante"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "bravucón"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "valentón"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "kaxig"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "mayabang"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "arrogante"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "asbag"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "overly confident",
          "word": "kibirli"
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          "ref": "1725, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Young Man and the Harlot”, in N[athan] Bailey, transl., All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things, Translated into English, London: Printed for J. Darby, […], →OCLC, page 196",
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          "text": "Hobhouse's insolence to Mr. Hunt is not seen in its true light, unless we remember, that the latter is held under heavy recognizances to keep the peace! The little cocky seems to have been half mad; and well he might.",
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          "text": "\"Go on board that little cockleshell of yourn?\"—pointing to the splendid yacht—\"not if I knows it, my cockeys! This old oss is spry to when he is well off—so make tracks and be off, before you gits this old coon's dander up.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Martin Pilcher, chapter 12, in The Banana Skin Tango, [United Kingdom]: Aardvark-Zap Publishing, page 118",
          "text": "Somewhere, somehow, there had to be something more ennobling than that. But how to find it? Ah, there's the rub, my cockies.",
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          "ref": "1868 October, M. G. Sleeper, “Pets and Sports in Tasmania”, in Merry’s Museum, for Boys and Girls, volume 1 (New Series), number 10, Boston, Mass.: Horace B. Fuller, publisher, […], published 1869, →OCLC, page 399",
          "text": "By that time, the white cockatoo—a beautiful bird, as large as a common fowl—would find out the family gathering-place, and waddle along, calling 'Pretty Cocky! Pretty Cocky!' […] Presently, Cocky ruffles his plumage till he looks half as large again as before; he throws his crest, with its double fan of brilliantly yellow feathers, as far forward as possible, and spreads and closes it rapidly.",
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          "ref": "2005 August 5, Tim Jeanes, “Town Seeks Environmental Accreditation”, in The World Today, Australian Broadcasting Commission, archived from the original on 2017-10-01",
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          "ref": "2008, Amanda Lohrey, Vertigo: A Novella, Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc., Schwartz Publishing; Vertigo: A Pastoral, 2nd edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc., Schwartz Publishing, 2009, pages 57–58",
          "text": "One afternoon a flock of glossy black cockatoos alights on a cluster of she-oaks in the western corner of the yard where they screech in ear-splitting decibels until dusk. […] [H]e tells her that the arrival of black cockies is a portent of rain. But the rain doesn't come.",
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          "ref": "2011, Barry Simiana, chapter 15, in A Touch of Evil, [Morrisville, N.C.?]: Nitewriter Media, page 131",
          "text": "He smacked his lips a couple of times and grimaced. God, his mouth tastled like the bottom of a cockie’s cage. Probably smelt as appealing too.",
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          "ref": "2012, Samantha Carter, “Hard Won Rewards”, in All Secrets Told, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 61",
          "text": "Next comes the rosellas and the cockatoos and the rest of the local parrots. Their singing is much heartier, and they begin to drown out their cousins. Finally Kate can hear a galah, his deep-throated song is interrupted by the cockies, but he is persistent in his welcome to the day.",
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          "ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, chapter 2, in Human Toll, London: Duckworth & Co., →OCLC; republished as Human Toll (eBook; no. 0607531h.html), [Australia]: Project Gutenberg Australia, September 2006, archived from the original on 2018-09-13",
          "text": "We camped one evening at Narrangidgery Creek, close b’ a cocky’s ’umstead.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1946, Miles Franklin, “Back on the Land”, in My Career Goes Bung: Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybella Penelope Melvyn, Melbourne, Vic.: Georgian House, →OCLC; republished as My Career Goes Bung (eBook; 0900281h.html), [Australia]: Project Gutenberg Australia, March 2015, archived from the original on 2018-09-12",
          "text": "Burrawong was one of the larger stations in which much of the good land of the district was locked. The cockies usually had to follow the main road, but since the drought the owners had opened one of their permanent water-holes so that the poorer settlers could cart water to their homesteads.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Peter Doyle, The Devil’s Jump, Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Arrow/Random House; The Devil’s Jump (A Dark Passage Book), 1st American edition, Portland, Or.: Verse Chorus Press, 2008, page 255",
          "text": "That chap could be one of them. Or it could be the local butcher or newsagent, or cow cockie. We don't know. We've got to keep going.",
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          "ref": "2001 November 19, Shelley Horton, “Media Dimensions: Episode 15”, in Australian Broadcasting Commission, archived from the original on 2007-11-17",
          "text": "And stories in the bush may not seem relevant in the big smoke, but try telling that to a cocky.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda (Matilda Saga; 1), Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson",
          "text": "Now—well, Moura was scarcely Drinkwater, but it was more than just a cocky farm too.",
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Jeremy Ward, “The McCullochs and the Kimlins”, in Dressmakers, Preachers and Cockies: A Family History Memoir, Tingalpa, Qld.: Boolarong Press, page 4",
          "text": "Joseph was a cockie, a small-scale farmer. Such farmers were called cockies in the early days of European settlement in Australia because, like the cockatoos that weaved and screeched above them, they made their homes on the edges of creeks and permanent waterholes.",
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          "ref": "1919, C. Hampton Thorp, “About Various Things”, in A Handful of Ausseys, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 116",
          "text": "But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport.",
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          "ref": "1946, Alan J[udge] Holt, Wheat Farms of Victoria: A Sociological Survey, [Melbourne, Vic.]: School of Agriculture, University of Melbourne, →OCLC, page 150",
          "text": "[B]oys these days haven't got the guts to go cockying.",
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          "ref": "1969 December, A[lbert] L[ancaster] Lloyd, Mark Gregory, interviewer, Overland, Footscray, Vic.: O. L. Society, published 1970, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 1",
          "text": "When we arrived in Sydney, we were herded together, and a mob of cockies had their pick of us as cheap pommy labor. As assisted migrants, we were more or less doomed to work in cocky country, because bush workers generally don't much like cockying.",
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          "ref": "1983, Dudley St. John Magnus, Hanabeke, London: Angus & Robertson, page 43",
          "text": "Perhaps I ought to try getting a job somewhere cockeying. But I was against this. I was after Hanabeke and, as far as I could work out, Womboolah was the most likely place for him to be.",
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