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...
   • The Velcro closure of one sneaker had come loose and stuck up like a cockeyed tongue.2008, Stephen King, Just After Sunset
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.
   • As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   absurd, Laputan, cockamamie, farcical, foolish, full of it, irrational, inconsistent, incongruous, jabberwocky

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

   Synonyms:

   Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored