cockeye
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
Definition of cockeye
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“His cockeye ogled the pile of food sitting on the table. “Delicious!” he said with glee. The cockeyed cricket licked his lips […]”
“As flies swarmed around a nearby outhouse, Molly B eyed him for a moment, looking him up and down with a cockeye that seemed to have a life of its own.”
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noun
-
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.”
“His cockeye ogled the pile of food sitting on the table. “Delicious!” he said with glee. The cockeyed cricket licked his lips […]”
“As flies swarmed around a nearby outhouse, Molly B eyed him for a moment, looking him up and down with a cockeye that seemed to have a life of its own.”
- The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).
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