cockeye

plural cockeyes · alternative cock-eye · alternative cock eye

1. An eye affected by strabismus.

   “Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.

   1920, William Patterson White, Lynch Lawyers, page 257

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   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.

   1894, Louis Zangwill, A Drama in Dutch, page 168

   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.

   2006, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown

   His cockeye ogled the pile of food sitting on the table. “Delicious!” he said with glee. The cockeyed cricket licked his lips […]

   2011, Bea L. Brown, Wally the Cockeyed Cricket

   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.

   2019, Bill Bishop, Two Hearts, page 9

2. engineeringThe socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

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1. alternativeAlternative form of cockeyed (“askew”).