Scottish dialect term meaning arrogant, boastful, or cocky; showing excessive pride or swagger.
Scottish origin, possibly from 'cock' (rooster, symbolizing arrogance) + 'bondy' (uncertain origin), combining to describe someone acting like a proud rooster.
Scottish English has these wonderfully specific insult words—'cockabondy' captures a very particular kind of annoying behavior, the kind of swaggering confidence of someone who hasn't earned the right to be that proud.
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