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If I worked at a financially troubled corporation, and I had a say on who to hire to replace a crooked CEO that had nearly run the company into financial ruin, I sure as hell am NOT going to hand the reigns of my future over to a cockey, inexperienced, fast-talker.

Clinton, Obama dead even, poll says 2008

He's a cockey confident son of a bitch and I like him.

James Cameron Is The First Director To Have Two $1 Billion Films: Avatar Passes $1 Billion Worldwide in Just 17 Days | /Film 2010

Biology must then go on to recognize that when it comes to understanding what is going on in the DNA, it is a science in its infancy, or maybe cockey adolescence.

Demarcation as Politics 2006

Or if they got too cockey and liberal with their story ideas ie: outlandish plot devices beyond what we'd want to expect from indy films ...

Filmstalker: Lucas and Spielberg talk Indiana Jones 4 2007

Now the Secretary was duly impressed with all the dignity of his official position, and he rarely failed to pull it on the ordinary individual -- cockey would be about the proper term.

The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

"The question was quite natural, sir; the pistols were presented to us by some people we traveled with once; we took the plates off because they made a great fuss about nothing, and we thought that it would look cockey."

The Young Buglers 1867

"No one would suspect you of being cockey, Scudamore," Captain Manley said kindly; "come, let me see the plates."

The Young Buglers 1867

On horseback, Tom was a cockey, wiry-looking, keen-eyed, grim-visaged, hard-bitten little fellow, sitting as though he and his horse were all one, while on foot he was the most shambling, scambling, crooked-going crab that ever was seen.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

I feel so cockey for Missouri, the jubilant ditty goes.

The Pitch | Complete Issue 2009

On the topic of running up the score, I wouldnt get too cockey.

MVN 2008