Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giddy; rash; hare-brained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Giddy; rash.
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Examples
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“No one was riding more daring, more cock-brained, or more foolish” than Pearson, or so he declared in his 1958 memoir, Never Look Back.
The Jockey and the Showman Moss, Nat 2009
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-- "A bibliomane is an indiscriminate accumulator, who blunders faster than he buys, cock-brained and purse-heavy."
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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It was a youthful, exhilarating, cock-brained winter, New England dytharimb.
Margaret 1851
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Truth to say, ye boke is ye boke of a cock-brained man, and is full of devises crude and conceitede, but peradventure for my sake this grace may be vouchsafed unto him.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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'Thou art cock-brained enough already,' he added, 'and we shall have thy young pate addled entirely, if you do not take some natural rest.'
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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There is a certain kind of cleverish men, either half educated or cock-brained by nature, who are attached to that same turnipology.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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"No one was riding more daring, more cock-brained, or more foolish" than Pearson, or so he declared in his 1958 memoir,
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"'Tis he!" said Essper; "now don't speak, sir, don't speak! and if the devil make me join him, as may be the case, for I am but a cock-brained thing, particularly at midnight, don't be running after me from any foolish feeling, but take care of yourself, and don't be chattering.
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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