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cockeye

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cockeye

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From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).

noun cockeyes · cock-eye · cock eye

  1. An eye affected by strabismus. How dared that miserable wretch cast his eye—his cock[-]eye, as Vroom had truly said—on Etta. It gave him a kind of grim pleasure to dwell on Looten's physical defect.
  2. The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

adjective more cockeye · most cockeye · cock-eye · cock eye

  1. alternative Alternative form of cockeyed (“askew”).

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"cockeye." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cockeye. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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cockeye. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cockeye

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"cockeye." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cockeye.

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@misc{cockeye_2026,
  title = {cockeye},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cockeye},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}