What does cock eyed mean?
Cock eyed means Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed..
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/ˈkɒkˌaɪd/ · adjective
Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed..
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! […]"
Use cock eyed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cock eyed means Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed..
Common synonyms include absurd, Laputan, cockamamie, cockeyed.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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