different between conceited vs cockscomb

English

Alternative forms

• conceipted (obsolete)

Etymology 1

conceit +? -ed

Adjective

conceited (comparative more conceited, superlative most conceited)

1. Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
   • c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady

     If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.

   • 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism

     Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.

2. (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
3. (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.

   • He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.

4. (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

   • A conceited chair to sleep in.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Derived terms

• conceitedly
• conceitedness

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Etymology 2

See conceit (verb)

Verb

conceited

1. simple past tense and past participle of conceit

English

Alternative forms

• coxcomb

Etymology

From cock +? -s- +? comb.

Noun

cockscomb (plural cockscombs)

1. The fleshy red crest of a rooster
2. A red cap once worn by court jesters
3. A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
4. An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi

     She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.

5. (archaic) A conceited dandy
6. (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

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