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cock-eyed

cock-eyed is the alternative form of cockeyed.

Meaning of cockeyed

Adjective

cockeyed (comparative more cockeyed, superlative most cockeyed)

  1. Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
  2. Crooked or askew.
    • This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg.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...
  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! […]"1934, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Work of Art, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, page 166

Forms of cock-eyed

comparativemore cock-eyed
superlativemost cock-eyed

Questions about cock-eyed

What is cock-eyed the alternative form of?
Cock-eyed is the alternative form of cockeyed.

Words near cock-eyed in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cock-eyed (page history and authors); cockeyed (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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