cock-a-hoop
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See also: cockahoop
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown
Adjective
[edit]cock-a-hoop (comparative more cock-a-hoop, superlative most cock-a-hoop)
- Exultant, very happy, triumphant.
- 2008, Lucy Cavendish, The Guardian, G2, 9th January 2008, p. 3:
- I have to say I felt pretty cock-a-hoop straight after my epidural but, some hours later, my head felt as though someone large and heavy had been sitting on it.
- 2008, Lucy Cavendish, The Guardian, G2, 9th January 2008, p. 3:
Translations
[edit]Exultant, very happy, triumphant.
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