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Cock-a-hoop   /kɑk-ə-hup/   Listen
Cock-a-hoop

adjective
1.
Exhibiting self-importance.  Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing.






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"Cock-a-hoop" Quotes from Famous Books



... resort, to clear the doubt, They got old GOVERNOR HANCOCK out. The Governor came, with his Light-horse Troop And his mounted truckmen, all cock-a-hoop; Halberds glittered and colors flew, French horns whinnied and trumpets blew, The yellow fifes whistled between their teeth And the bumble-bee bass-drums boomed beneath; So he rode with all his band, Till the President met him, cap in hand. —The Governor "hefted" the crowns, ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... agreed. Well, the Arabs raised the army; Emir Feisul, King Hussein's third son, commanded it; Lawrence did so well that he became a legend. The result was, Allenby could concentrate his army on this side of the Jordan and clean up. He made a good job of it. The Arabs were naturally cock-a-hoop." ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy



Words linked to "Cock-a-hoop" :   crowing, proud



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