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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 cages
  2. cock cheese
  3. cock cheeses
  4. cock egg
  5. cock eggs
  6. cock eye
  7. cock eyes
  8. cock feather
  9. cock feathers
  10. cock gobbler
  11. cock gobblers

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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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