The 855 occurrences of cocky
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Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles and Goosey-poosey?" said Turkey-lurkey.
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"Why, certainly, Turkey-lurkey," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey.
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So Henny-penny, Cocky- locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Foxy-woxy, and Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey: "Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey- lurkey?"
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And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey said to Foxy-woxy: "We're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling."
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but this is not the way to the king, Henny- penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey and Turkey-lurkey," says Foxy-woxy; "I know the proper way; shall I show it you?"
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"Why certainly, Foxy-woxy," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky- daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the king the sky was a-falling.
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But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey- lurkey: "This is the short way to the king's palace you'll soon get there if you follow me.
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I will go first and you come after, Henny- penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey."
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"Why of course, certainly, without doubt, why not?" said Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.
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So Foxy-woxy went into his cave, and he didn't go very far but turned round to wait for Henny-Penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey- poosey and Turkey-lurkey.
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Then Cocky-locky strutted down into the cave and he hadn't gone far when "Snap, Hrumph!" went Foxy-woxy and Cocky- locky was thrown alongside of Turkey-lurkey, Goosey-poosey and Ducky- daddles.
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But Foxy-woxy had made two bites at Cocky-locky, and when the first snap only hurt Cocky-locky, but didn't kill him, he called out to Henny-penny.
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I hev been kinder cocky, an I hev put on some airs, ez these fellers says, fer I callated ye'd kinder washed yer hands o' this business, an leff me tew be capin, but arter this ye'll fine Abner Rathbun knows his place."
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He's young enough and cocky enough to get hurt quite naturally."
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He set about cleaning and polishing himself, combing his hair, smoothing his cap--and was as cocky as ever next morning.
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How very cocky his lordship was!
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They're so cocky now, that pretty near every ball is straight on the wickets.
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"The same to you, Cocky Locky," said the pancake.
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I'll run away from you too, Cocky Locky," said the pancake, and it rolled and rolled as fast as it could.
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"No, no; I have run away from the mother, and the father, and seven hungry children, Manny Panny, Henny Penny, and Cocky Locky.
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"No, no; I have run away from the mother, the father, seven hungry children, Manny Panny, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, and Ducky Lucky.
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"No, no; I've run away from the mother, the father, seven hungry children, Manny Panny, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, and Goosey Poosey.
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They were as cocky and consequential as possible, cruising up and down with an air, and staring at each other and out through the screen of leaves between them and the river, and every now and then taking something off a leaf and spitting it out again in a very independent connoisseur-like way.
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He tolerated black Billy, who fed him, and was respectful to Mr. Linton; but he worshipped Mrs. Brown, the cook, and her appearance at the kitchen door, which he could see from his stand, caused an instant outbreak of cheers and chatter, varied by touching appeals to "scratch Cocky."
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'But he's as cocky as ever,' said Matilda, narrowing her eyes and shaking her head knowingly, as she handed the frying-pan.
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I said to him at the time, I said, it's too thin, cocky.
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'Good day, Cocky-Locky', said the Hen.
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'Good day, Cocky-Locky', said the Duck, 'whither away so early?'
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'Who told you that, Cocky-Locky?'
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'Cocky-Locky.'
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'Who told you that, Cocky-Locky?'
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'Cocky-Locky.'
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'Who told you that, Cocky-Locky?'
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But while he was gone, the Hen woke up the Cock, and told him how it had gone with Goosey-Poosey and Ducky-Lucky; and so Cocky-Lucky and Henny-Penny flew out through the chimney, and if they hadn't got to the Dovrefell, it surely would have been all over with the world.
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'Good luck, cocky.'
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I didn't sneak around the galley yesterday morning and hear you tell that cocky little fool to come and get a piece of pie tonight.
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But you all gotta have nothin' to do with dat yeh Mistah Hamlin and dat yeh cocky li'le Ben Lathrop.'
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But the others wanted to meet her, or pretended to, perhaps to chaff Dennis, rather a cocky youth, though I oughtn't to say so, as he was nice to me, according to his lights.
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"How cocky they are!" he would say, contemptuously.
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"Clear the guns, baw-cocky boys; 'tis our turn next--but stand by till she comes about--" From the companion below came one running, eyes wild, mouth agape, and I recognised the man Ford who had been my chief persecutor in the forecastle.
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"Right, cocky!" said the artist.
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The old cocky, he grew jealous, and he thumped me black and blue, And he drove me off without a rap-the stringy-bark cockatoo.
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You lie there and think about it, cocky; I'll show you his shirt tomorrow morning."
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Come in here and peel your eyes, cocky!
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"That's right, too," he said.... "Well, here it is, cocky.
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He was dressed in a woollen jacket coat, knee-trousers and leggins; on his head he wore a jaunty, cocky little Scotch cap; a man, I should judge, about fifty years old, well-fed and hearty in appearance, with grayish hair and a good-humoured eye.
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"That's the sperrit, Cocky," approved Hawker, "but donchew fergit you gotter larst fifteen bloomin' rahnds.
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I'm a mighty cocky lady myself!
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We hired a carry-lettz and a cocky-olly, to take us to the Church of Salt Peter, which is prodigious big; in the centre of the pizarro there is a basilisk very high, on the right and left two handsome foundlings; and the farcy, as Mr. Fulmer called it, is ornamented with collateral statutes of some of the Apostates.'
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On cheese and soup she feeds her priceless "Pekie"-- Stilton and Cheddar, Bortch and Cocky-leekie; And Max, her shrill-voiced "Pom," politely begs For his diurnal dole of new-laid eggs.
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We shall have Cocky-locky, and Turkey-lurky, and Goosie-poosie, and all the rest of them, before we get much farther.
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But he was as cocky as a little bantam.
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Dick Melvyn of Bruggabrong was not recognizable in Dick Melvyn, dairy farmer and cocky of Possum Gully.
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To him an Eton boy, of corresponding years, severely observed, "Well, you Harrow fellows needn't be so beastly cocky.
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The dog arose, and, placing his head upon his master's knee, looked up into the lined and rugged face, as the novelist continued, "If he was only a wee bit puffed up and cocky over the thing, now, we could exert ourselves, so we could, couldn't we?"
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"Don't be so cocky," cried Pym, in sudden rebellion.
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"Oh, we gave the Boches a couple this morning so they shouldn't get cocky thinking they were safe It's necessary to keep your hand in even in the winter."
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"There was a sort of cocky unconcern about the creature that gave his miserable state a kind of beggarly distinction.
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I grew vain and rather "cocky," and it was just as well that during the rehearsals for the Christmas pantomime in 1857 I was tried for the part of the Fairy Dragonetta and rejected.
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"Old man, if you had been chased by the fowler as often as I have," were the words behind his teeth, addressed to the dim and fluffy figure, "you wouldn't be sitting up there so calm and cocky.
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"Good-by, cocky," said he.
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That's why they're so cocky."
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Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, that Sam Hupp noticed a rather cocky over-assurance in Jock's attitude toward the world in general.
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It was a cocky American gesture with the sotto voce of one insinuating by touch an inhibition to touch at all.
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She was dark and trig in a little belted jacket, a gold quill shimmering at a cocky angle on the new blue-straw hat.
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"Your roommate cocky?" asked Haynes, with a short laugh.
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Bruno Lawrence Bruno, do you remember the Me and Gus stories, way before Barry Crump got keen, when a cow cocky was a bastard you met on gravelly roads?
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cocky, a.
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PETS: SUSIE--COCKY--TRUMP--CHIPS--WENDY--TAFFY........ 264 XXIII.
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PETS: SUSIE--COCKY--TRUMP--CHIPS--WENDY--TAFFY.
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Cocky resented his interference, flew at him and bit his finger to the bone.
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Having slowly sauntered up and down, and scanned the various characters peculiar to the City of Universities--as, for instance, an autocrat in the person of a Dean of Christchurch, a Principal of Balliol, or a Master of Jesus, a Proctor newly made, but already endowed with something of the detective police expression; several senior fellows, plump, shy, proud, and lazy--walking for an appetite, and looking into the fishmongers on their way to the parks; a "cocky" Master of Arts, just made, and hastening to call on all his friends and tradesmen to show off his new dignity, and rustle the sleeves of his new gown; three lads, just entered from a public school (last month they laid out tip in Mother Brown's tarts), on their way to order three courses and dessert at the Mitre, where very indifferent fare is provided for fashionable credit prices; a pale student, after Dr. Pusey's own heart, in cap and gown, pacing monk-like along, secretly telling his beads; a tuft (nobleman) lounging out of the shop of a tailor, who, as he follows his lordship to the door, presents the very picture of a Dean bowing to a Prime Minister, when a bishop is very sick.
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"I don't often have the impulse to crow over a man," he said, "but this Baines was so infernally cocky.
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He was, in consequence, very "cocky" the rest of the day, proposing to produce a Squirrel whenever they came to a stub with a hole in it, and at length, after many failures, had the satisfaction of driving a belated Woodpecker out of its nest.
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I'm blessed if I see what you're so cocky about.
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She takes with her all she meets, who, like her, are credulous,--Cocky Locky, Ducky Daddies, Goosey Poosey, and Turky Lurky,--until they meet Foxy Woxy, who leads them into his cave, never to come out again.
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Something of the dapper, cocky look of our brothers in arms on our streets undoubtedly is due to their canes.
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Sometimes there's nothing better for a cocky fighter than to take a solid right to the jaw---let's him know he's in a real fight.
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With a careless, cocky swagger he had always, before this, stood up to his troubles.
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One of the young and cocky engineers, whom he so hated, dropped by dread mischance a heavy hammer on a stick of it, and the resulting turmoil left him lying torn and mangled on the rocks.
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They caused one James Cocky, a gold worker, to forge the great seal of Francis and Mary, "wherewith they sealed their pretended laws and ordinances, tending to constrain the subjects of the kingdom to rebel and favour their usurpations."
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The artist, Cocky, was dilatory, and when the brethren were driven out of Edinburgh he gave the dies, unfinished, to John Achison, the chief official of the Mint, who often executed coins of Queen Mary.
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Cocky and Kirkcaldy were hanged by Morton in 1573.
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A strong, cocky young boy he is too; greatly for composhing he is, an' painting, an' the like o' that.
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_Lu._ Ah, ah, are we not by ourselves already, my Cocky?
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One day they would have the cooked, or rather half-cooked, British joints of Mrs. Wolston and her daughter, varied occasionally, to the great delight of Willis, with a tureen of hotch-potch or cocky-leekie.
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[_Exit hurriedly to beat the foe, and, strange to say, the object is subsequently attained--somehow!_ * * * * * AN ANTI-ONIONIST LIBERAL.--Mr. LEAKE lately made a radically plucky speech, and is in future to be known in the North as Cocky Leakey.
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"I'll try that left feint on Rogers, the cocky ass!"
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Grim was no end cocky over that."
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One thing, indeed, was in the Hatfield man's favour; his lately cocky and contemptuous competitors had been 'weeded out' by a fortuitous series of adverse circumstances, including what SOLLY, in a spirit of cynical but excusable elation, subsequently called 'that beneficent disease, the Influenza.'
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There was a knock upon her door, and a voice: "Hi, cocky, could you oblige me with a loan of a few 'alfpence for the milkman.
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Well, cocky, I don't mind tellin' you I lost me 'ead at that.
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Battersleigh's cloak had a swagger in its very back, and his hat sat at a cocky angle not to be denied.
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Soon Elspeth dropped her shoes and gazed in admiration at him, but more often than not she laughed in the wrong place, and then he said ironically: "Oh, in course I can't do nothin'; jest let's see you doing of it, then, cocky!"
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It stands to reason that it can't be right for all the wealth to be in the pockets of the few, and for there to be a distinct and cocky governing class.