cocky

Adjective complement with noun phrase

get: He was just getting a bit cocky for his own good.

Modifies a noun

• swagger: Is it even really the same band that hijacked Britpop with a cocky Mancunian swagger ten years ago?
• attitude: And we started getting a real cocky attitude, like, " Well, why should we sign a record, anyway?
• self: There was Michael Brown, who for once didn't appear his usual assured, cocky self.
• car: CARS ( PG ) Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car.
• one: They came across as cocky, but the cocky ones make the most interesting entertainment.
• bastard: Right, you cocky bastards, I've got you now, I thought.

Modifying Another Word

• too: They have a swagger, not too cocky, it's not a chip on the shoulder attitude thing, they just know.
• so: The boy with the back massage was so cocky I wanted to slap him.
• not: I did this by being normal, not cocky or arrogant.
• rather: I have been to the home and seen for myself this improved but rather cocky dog!
• little: Maybe that put me off, or maybe I was a little cocky.
• very: And they got very cocky, and went about saying you were done for this time!

Used with adjective complement

• get: I warned Tory MPs not to get too cocky about the police investigations.
• feel: I begin to know I ought to feel sheepish and beat, but somehow I feel cocky instead.
• appear: A modern-day superhero has to contend with America's obsession with winners and the UK's preoccupation with not appearing too cocky.
• become: It was then that the tribes became too cocky - and their overconfidence led to their final defeat.