a. colloq. [Formed by vague association with COCK v.1, and such compounds as cockalorum, cock-a-hoop, cock-horse, cock-loft.] Affectedly lofty, stuck up.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. Hallib., I. xii. (1862), 212. Some rubbishing cock-aloft notion of ‘doing right’!
