💪 Very strong 😏 Arrogant or boastful

bullocky

9.9

Acting too proud and boastful

adjective

Archaic

: presumido

After his promotion, he started to act bullocky around the office.

Examples

His bullocky attitude made him unpopular among his colleagues.
Don't be so bullocky when discussing your achievements!
Don't get bullocky just because you've won one match.
She dislikes people who are too bullocky at parties.
After his promotion, he started to act bullocky around the office.
Don't get bullocky just because you've won one match.
She dislikes people who are too bullocky at parties.

Synonyms

arrogant

vsbullocky

246 4.5

Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people

adds boastful talk to this overbearing sense of self

cocky

vsbullocky

Informal

100 4.2

Being too confident and acting proud so other people dislike you

includes confident attitude plus proud speech about achievements

haughty

vsbullocky

14 8.1

Acting proud and looking down on other people

is more likely to include boastful speech as well as disdain

impudent

vsbullocky

10 7.9

Someone who shows no respect by acting or speaking boldly

emphasizes pride and bragging not just blunt rudeness

swaggering

vsbullocky

4 7.0

To act very confident and proud to get attention

shows both showy manner and boastful speech

braggy

vsbullocky

Informal

1 7.8

Talking proudly about things you have done

is about both prideful talk and an overbearing superior attitude

bumptious

vsbullocky

1 9.9

Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people

adds bragging speech to the assertive overconfident behavior

nervy

vsbullocky

1 7.6

Showing bold rudeness that upsets people

is more about prideful boasting rather than mere rudeness

dicty

vsbullocky

Offensive

1 9.9

Acting like you are better than other people

is more about open pride and bragging, not only social pretence

lordly

vsbullocky

1 8.0

Acting very proud and treating others as unimportant

focuses more on proud talk and showing off than formal disdain

Antonyms

humble

238 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

modest

83 2.7

Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting

How Arrogant

bullocky

Archaic

9.9

arrogant

246 4.5

cocky

Informal

100 4.2

confident

759 2.5

modest

83 2.7

humble

238 2.8

Surface Forms

bullocky positive

Morphology

bullocky = bullock (semi-transparent) = bullock + y

Formed from 'bullock' + '-y' but the sense 'arrogant or boastful' is a metaphorical extension from animal qualities and may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Bullocky can also be used in a figurative way and a helpful way to remember this is to see it as bullock + -y, meaning 'like a bull'. Someone bullocky behaves loud, proud, and pushy, so bullocky can mean 'arrogant or boastful'.