cockeyed
Adjective
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Adjective
cockeyed
- (US) Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
- (US) Crooked or askew.
- 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 Press, 2002, p. 60-61,
- 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 Press, 2002, p. 60-61,
- (US, 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.
- Drunk.
- 1934, Sinclair Lewis, Work of Art, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter 12, p. 166,
- 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, Work of Art, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter 12, p. 166,
- See also Thesaurus:drunk
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