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cockeye

noun

Etymology

From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).

  1. inherited from ēaġan
  2. inherited from eyen
  3. derived from *h₃okʷ-✻
  4. inherited from *augô✻ — “eye”
  5. inherited from *augā✻
  6. inherited from ēage — “eye”
  7. inherited from eye
  8. compounded as cockeye — “cock + eye”

Definitions

  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.
    • “Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.
    • The next time I saw Dave, he'd joined Deep Purple and had just got back from Sweden, where the band had sent their new lead singer to have his cock-eye straightened.

  2. The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA