cockeyed
/ˈkɒkˌaɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.89 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The Velcro closure of one sneaker had come loose and stuck up like a cockeyed tongue."
- "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."
- "While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview."
- "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! […]""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok English cock English eyed English cockeyed From cock + eyed.