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ˈcock-eyed, a. colloq.
[see cock-eye n.1 and a.]
1. a. Squint-eyed.
1821Byron Vis. Judgm. lxvi, A merry, cock-eyed, curious looking sprite. 1863Tyneside Songs 19 Cock-eyed Tom that sells the pies.
b. fig. Goggle-eyed; topsy-turvy, absurd, ridiculous.
1896Daily News 29 Feb. 5/3 It is a gorge that requires a good deal of cock-eyed watching by foot passengers. 1933Punch 31 May 597 There doesn't seem to be anyone about in this cock-eyed town. 1945Koestler Twilight Bar i. 30 When it's summer in the North, it's winter in the South. Completely cockeyed. 1960M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye x. 201 He gathered together the scrap ends of his profligate experience..and turned them into a lot of cockeyed books.
2. Drunk. orig. U.S.
[1722B. Franklin in New-Eng. Courant 3–10 Sept., Cogey.] 1926Hemingway Sun also Rises xii. 126 ‘You're cock-eyed,’ I said. ‘On wine?’ ‘Why not?’ 1933M. Lincoln Oh! Definitely viii. 102 ‘Have another drink?’..‘Love it,’ she said. ‘Only don't forget that I mustn't turn up cock-eyed to meet Horace.’ 1934E. Linklater M. Merriman xvi. 178 You wouldn't have asked me to marry you if you hadn't been cock-eyed at the time.
3. cock-eyed Bob = cock-eye Bob. local Austral. slang.
1894Age (Melbourne) 20 Jan. 13/4 (Morris), The approach of an ordinary thunderstorm or ‘Cock-eyed Bob’. 1930E. R. B. Gribble 40 Yrs. with Aborigines xvii. 173 We had our first experience of a Cock-eyed Bob, or storm of wind, thunder, lightning, and rain. 1952T. A. G. Hungerford in Coast to Coast 1951–2 13 The pearlers who anchored in the bay sometimes to escape the cockeyed-bobs that sprang up so suddenly along those desolate, treacherous coasts.
Hence ˈcock-ˌeyedness.
1941Koestler Scum of Earth 78 And yet in this apparent cock-eyedness there was the same administrative logic. 1942Chicago Tribune 18 May 12/1 Communists are cockeyed... Today we shall dwell not upon their dangerousness, but upon their cockeyedness. |