Cocksure

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 Cocksure.


I am not sure if many of you have ever heard of this word.  And I know when you look at the word, it looks like a derogatory, not nice word, that I often called Trump, or sometimes I’d say it when I stubbed my toe. Yeah, it is not that word, though I can see how someone might think that.


Now, I am not a master at vocabulary but of course, when I first saw the word, I fell in love with it right away for juvenile reasons. But I looked up the word and the quote that I found it in made perfect sense. I loved it even more so let me share the definition. According to Webster’s dictionary, it means:


  1. Feeling perfect assurance sometimes on inadequate grounds.  2. Marked by overconfidence or presumptuousness.


Synonyms include: arrogant and cocky.



And for fun here is the quote (I made a visual for you all, and my Dad is going to love the quote):






Actually, I can imagine my father with a grin on his face going, with a grunt of a laugh, as he is reading this right now. He's my biggest and only fan, to be honest, even though politically speaking I probably raise his blood pressure. Well, maybe I am a bad daughter? Nope. I am not. Ok, enough about my father.


The reason I bring this up is that during a heated argument over text I used one of my favorite words. I deemed the person I was arguing with as being condescending and disrespectful toward me. My opinion of them was already there, in my head, when this quote came to my head. So I texted, "You are cocksure and naive." Then they said I was being derogatory saying that. Then we calmed down after a bit and verbally discussed our issues with one another. I thought we settled our differences and moved forward. But I guess not. Instead, my reputation is being questioned, etc.

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