COCKY

PRONUNCIATION: (KOK-ee)

MEANING: adjective: Brashly confident.

ETYMOLOGY: From cock, from Old English cocc (rooster). Earliest documented use: 1549.
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CACKY - the cloth (and the color) of a standard Army uniform

CROCKY - infested with large carnivorous aquatic lizards

CDC, KY - the address of the Frankfort office of the federal Communicable Diseases Center, in Kentucky