cock-a-hoop

Examples

• All

• After winning the championship, the team was cock-a-hoop and celebrated their victory all night.

• She probably would be cock-a-hoop!

  Fiction book (1991)

• I guess Joel is cock-a-hoop about the last couple of months' up-spike in ocean surface temperatures.

  Blog text (30)

• We were cock-a-hoop.

  Spitfire (2018)

• She walked into the meeting cock-a-hoop about her recent promotion, eager to share the good news.

• Feeling cock-a-hoop, he boasted to his friends about the success of his new project.

Synonyms

B

boastful

vscock-a-hoop

7 3.7

Being too proud of achievements or skills in a way that annoys others

is about being visibly elated and proud rather than showing by speech

S

self-aggrandizing

vscock-a-hoop

• Formal

4 8.6

Claiming to be more important or successful than you are

is about feeling proudly elated and self-important rather than deliberately inflating image

O

overweening

vscock-a-hoop

• Formal

2 9.8

Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you

is more about exultant celebratory feeling rather than uncontrolled ambition

P

proud as a peacock

vscock-a-hoop

• Informal

1 7.4

Being very pleased with yourself and showing it in a loud, showy way

is about feeling exultant and triumphant rather than only showing off

H

hubristic

vscock-a-hoop

• Formal

1 8.4

Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions

is more about exultant elation and proud celebration rather than stern arrogance

O

overproud

vscock-a-hoop

7.2

Believing you are better than other people and acting like it

is more about feeling elated and visibly self-important than mere confidence

Antonyms

H

humble

222 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

M

modest

81 2.7

Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting

How Proud

cock-a-hoop

• Archaic

9.9

exultant

• Formal

3 7.3

proud

∞ 1.0

pleased

936 1.0

content

108 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology