cockeyed
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
cockeyed
- /ˈkɒkˌaɪd/
- /ˌkɒkˈaɪd/
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *keukô
Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *kokk
Old English cocc
Middle English cok
English cock
English eyed
English cockeyed
From cock + eyed.
adjective more cockeyed · most cockeyed · cock-eyed
- Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
- Crooked or askew. 1950, Langston Hughes, Simple Speaks His Mind, Chapter 12, in The Early Simple Stories, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 7, edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 60–61, This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of baco
- Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people. I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.
- Drunk. In the private office he said, "Mr. Barrow, I was going to quit." "Don't do that, son! You're the only executive I've got that isn't cockeyed all the time! […]"