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Adjective: cock-a-hoop  ,kó-ku'hoop
  1. Exhibiting self-importance
    "cock-a-hoop talk";
    - boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising [Brit]
     
  2. Full of high-spirited delight
    - elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant, gleesome [archaic], on top of the world

See also: joyous, proud

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Cochlearius cochlearius
cochon de lait
Cochran
cock
cock a snook
cock of the rock
cock sucking
cock up
cockade
cock-a-doodle-doo
cock-a-hoop
Cockaigne
cock-a-leekie
cockamamie
cockamamy
cock-and-bull story
cockateel
cockatiel
cockatoo
cockatoo parrot
cockatrice