cockeyed

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cockeyed

  • /ˈkɒkˌaɪd/
  • /ˌkɒkˈaɪd/

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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

  1. Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
  2. 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
  3. informal Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people. I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.
  4. 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! […]"

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