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cock-eye

cock-eye is the alternative form of cockeye.

Meaning of cockeye

Noun

cockeye (plural cockeyes)

  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.1894, Louis Zangwill, A Drama in Dutch, page 168
  2. The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

Forms of cock-eye

pluralcock-eyes

Questions about cock-eye

What is cock-eye the alternative form of?
Cock-eye is the alternative form of cockeye.

Words near cock-eye in the dictionary

  1. cock-brained
  2. cock-cheese
  3. cock-crow
  4. cock-crows
  5. cock-drunk
  6. cock-eye
  7. cock-eyed
  8. cock-eyes
  9. cock-feather
  10. cock-feathers
  11. cock-fighting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cock-eye (page history and authors); cockeye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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