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COCKY
Definition of COCKY
adjective
Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COCKY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COCKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.
Built from these letters
COCKY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CCKOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start COCKY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COCKY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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