Cockative Edit Meaning

1.

–adjective

1. inclined to speak excessively in an embarrassingly awkwardly over-assertive manner.

2. speaking in a manner which suggests that the speaker lacks physical endowment or intelligence by overcompensating with faux-confident rhetoric.

3. to illustrate an egotistical weakness through expressing false confidence

(see "desperate cry for help")

Oh yeah, that nitwit cocked my ear off.

Although he wore small shoes, he sure was cockative.

Was she on meth, or just generally cockative?

See ego, falsity, aplomb, gregarious