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Old 03-11-2017, 10:03 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Keith View Post
No pun, no joke: is that really where cocksure came from? Cock-sure.
when it was in dignified use in the 16th century, 'cock' was a euphemism for God. another example of that is the phrase 'cock and pie' which means 'God and his book'; Shakespeare used it once.
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