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cockeye

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Etymology

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Fromcock +‎eye. Seecock(to turn up).

Noun

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cockeye (pluralcockeyes)

  1. Aneye affected bystrabismus.
    • 1894, Louis Zangwill,A Drama in Dutch, page168:
      How dared that miserable wretch cast his eye—hiscock[-]eye, as Vroom had truly said—on Etta. It gave him a kind of grim pleasure to dwell on Looten's physical defect.
    • 1920, William Patterson White,Lynch Lawyers, page257:
      “Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing hiscockeye.
    • 2006, Roy 'Chubby' Brown,Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown:
      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 hiscock-eye straightened.
    • 2011, Bea L. Brown,Wally the Cockeyed Cricket:
      Hiscockeye ogled the pile of food sitting on the table. “Delicious!” he said with glee. The cockeyed cricket licked his lips[]
    • 2019, Bill Bishop,Two Hearts, page 9:
      As flies swarmed around a nearby outhouse, Molly B eyed him for a moment, looking him up and down with acockeye that seemed to have a life of its own.
  2. (engineering) Thesocket in theball of amillstone, which sits on thecockhead.

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