cock-a-hoop

[ kok-uh-hoop, -hoo p, kok-uh-hoop, -hoo p ]

/ ˌkɒk əˈhup, -ˈhʊp, ˈkɒk əˌhup, -ˌhʊp /

in a state of unrestrained joy or exultation; boastfully elated: He was cock-a-hoop over his victory.

askew; out of kilter: He knocked his hat cock-a-hoop.

Origin of cock-a-hoop

First recorded in 1520–30; origin uncertain

And while I speak of this, it is not much amiss to advise thee to correct a little this cock-a-hoop courage of thine.

Red Gauntlet |Sir Walter Scott
John of Skye is cock-a-hoop upon the occasion, and I suppose has made fifty blunders about it by this time.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 |John Gibson Lockhart
Cock-a-hoop with your new commission, before the ink is dry.

Frank Mildmay |Captain Frederick Marryat
And the house was full of women; and they seemed, somehow, all cock-a-hoop, and filled with admiration of him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 |Various

All cock-a-hoop for it,” struck in Cattledon: “as the housemaids are.

Johnny Ludlow, Third Series |Mrs. Henry Wood

cock-a-hoop

in very high spirits

boastful

askew; confused

C16: perhaps from the phrase to set the cock a hoop to live prodigally, literally: to put a cock on a hoop, a full measure of grain