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cockeyes

cockeyes is the plural 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.

Questions about cockeyes

What is cockeyes the plural of?
Cockeyes is the plural of cockeye.

Words near cockeyes in the dictionary

  1. cockey
  2. cockeye
  3. cockeyed
  4. cockeyedly
  5. cockeyedness
  6. cockeyes
  7. cockeying
  8. cockeys
  9. Cockeysville
  10. cockface
  11. cockfaces

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