Obs. One to whom is ascribed the brain of a cock; a light-headed, rash and foolish person. Cf. bird-witted.
1567. Drant, Horace’s Ep. de Arte P., A iiij. A freshe hote younker cocke braine, wylde.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619), 33. A very presumptuous and heady Cock-braine.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, XI. xxxvi. Wks. XI. 117. Haughty cock-brains, or furious hotspurs.
1675. Brooks, Gold. Key, Wks. 1867, V. 120. A light-head or cock-brain.
