cockeyedadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˌkɒkˈʌɪd/, U.S.

/ˈkɑkˌaɪd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cock v.¹, eyed adj.

Etymology: < cock v.¹ + eyed adj. Compare later cockeye n.¹, cockeye adj.Earlier currency (in sense A. 2a) is probably implied by the use in sense A. 1 (compare note at definition).

colloquial.

A. adj.

1. Originally and chiefly North American. (Very) drunk; intoxicated. Cf. sense B.Probably implying earlier currency of sense A. 2a, of which this appears to be a figurative use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk

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plotzed1962

over the limit1966

the worse for wear1966

wasted1968

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zoned1971

blasted1972

Brahms and Liszt?1972

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trousered1977

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tired and emotional1981

ratted1982

rat-arsed1984

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twatted1993

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lashed1996

1737 B. Franklin Drinkers Dict. in Pennsylvania Gaz. 6–13 Jan. 1/3 He's..Cock Ey'd.

1923 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 18 July 6/5 They talked of being ‘ginny’ and ‘cock-eyed’ and how they were laying for this cop and that.

1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xvi. 178 You wouldn't have asked me to marry you if you hadn't been cock-eyed at the time.

1953 J. Thompson Savage Night xviii. 136 I took a bottle up to my room with me, and I got half cockeyed.

2017 S. Carolina Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 5 Sept. But for now, to all of us who value drinking ourselves cockeyed more than getting our lives in order, raise your tall cans.

a. Of a person or his or her appearance, expression, etc.: having or characterized by a permanent deviation in the direction of gaze of one or both eyes; cross-eyed, boss-eyed. Cf. cockeye n.¹ 1.In quot. 1751 perhaps as a more general term of abuse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed

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1751 Midwife 2 180 Or you shall feel the Weight of my Resentment, ye old cock-ey'd Jezebel.

1761 Mem. Life Mod. Saint xii. 97 The cock-eyed family are all inspired.

1863 Tyneside Songs 19 Cock-eyed Tom that sells the pies.

1934 Sci. News Let. 13 Jan. 28/1 It is this lack of ability to fix both eyes on a given object that gives the young baby that occasional ‘cross-eyed’ or ‘cock-eyed’ look.

2012 Time Out N.Y. 12 Jan. 36/3 Tina Malhotra begins a diary addressed to Jean-Paul Sartre... As she dreamily ponders J.P.S.'s maxims and cockeyed visage, teenage traumas transpire.

b. With reference to the gaze of a person or (less commonly) an animal: directed to the side or from the corner of the eye; sidelong, oblique.In quot. 1896 perhaps specifically with reference to looking in two directions at once; cf. sense A. 2a.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways

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1852 Househ. Words 14 Aug. 511/1 The shrewd starlings avoid the place with a sidelong, cock-eyed glance of aversion.

1869 F. W. Robinson For her Sake II. i. xxiv. 20 A cross ‘cock-eyed’ glance, that was not pleasant to encounter.

1896 Daily News 29 Feb. 5/3 It [sc. Bennett-street, St. James's, London] is a gorge that requires a good deal of cock-eyed watching by foot passengers.

1919 N. A. Fuessle Flail xvii. 213 Deshman turned to Dohmer with a cock-eyed look.

2007 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 4 July (Sports section) When Lewis finally found a seat, Bonds shot him a cockeyed look.

3. figurative.

a. Topsy-turvy; absurd, ridiculous; crazy, irrational. Cf. cockeye adj. 2.Sometimes with connotations of having a blinkered or skewed outlook. Cf. one-eyed adj. 3a.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective]

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Rube Goldberg1928

whimsy-whamsy1931

Rube Goldbergian1933

cockamamie1941

fantasticated1960

fanciful-

1894 Daily Times (New Brunswick, New Jersey) 18 May Coxeyism is about the worst case of cock-eyed statesmanship that has yet struck the country.

1933 Punch 31 May 597 There doesn't seem to be anyone about in this cock-eyed town.

1945 A. Koestler Twilight Bar i. 30 When it's summer in the North, it's winter in the South. Completely cockeyed.

1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye x. 201 He gathered together the scrap ends of his profligate experience..and turned them into a lot of cock-eyed books.

2009 Harvard Law Rev. 122 1293 I like to remember Ollie as the classical cockeyed optimist.

b. Askew, crooked; not level, aslant; awry. Cf. cockeye adj. 1.

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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew

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1899 Shields Daily News 4 Mar. 4/3 If, as is hinted, some of our boulevards are so cock-eyed that they make people fall off their conveyances, then I think we had better put these right.

1907 Broad Way Oct. 145 Can't you put on these glasses better? You know you've got 'em all cockeyed.

1941 Amer. Boy Feb. 5/2 They knocked an oil lead cockeyed.

1967 G. Halls Cats of Benares ii. 23 A portrait of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, hanging cock-eyed on the wall, looked down on us with foggy sentimental eyes.

1991 Gay Times Apr. 64/1 The only radicalism was in the cockeyed camerawork and frenzied editing.

2002 A. Davies Frog King 204 Horst walks in, wearing a cockeyed party hat on his head and doing a Locomotiony dance.

B. adv.

Originally and chiefly North American. cockeyed drunk: = sense A. 1.

ΚΠ

1914 N.Y. Times 19 May 1/1 What in the — was the matter with that bunch. Were they all cock-eyed drunk?

1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl xxii. 263 He told me to get some whiskey and get cockeyed drunk and recover from the wait I had downstairs.

1986 J. Patterson Black Market iii. 35 He hoped to God he looked cockeyed drunk and absolutely helpless.

2015 J. P. Carinci Defying Death in Hagerstown v. 54 I pictured myself in the back of a police car, but this time cockeyed drunk.

Compounds

cockeyed Bob n. Australian (chiefly in Western Australia and Northern Territory) a cyclone or thunderstorm, esp. one which is sudden and violent, but short-lived; cf. cockeye Bob n. at cockeye n.¹ and adj. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1885 West Australian (Perth) 13 Apr. Last month we had a strong squall (‘Cockeyet [sic] Bob’) which lasted a few minutes and sent verandah lounges, empty boxes, and light vehicles rolling about.

1930 E. R. B. Gribble Forty Years with Aborigines xvii. 173 We had our first experience of a Cock-eyed Bob, or storm of wind, thunder, lightning, and rain.

1952 T. 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.

2010 Comment News (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Mar. 6 Mr Thompson has experienced several cyclones in the North-West but described the winds as being a cock-eyed bob that came up suddenly.

Derivatives

ˈcockˌeyedly adv.

ΚΠ

1927 G. Michel Ach Michel 162 He..was sizing me up cockeyedly.

1941 Scribner's Commentator May 107/1 In painful times, it is a much greater service to the world to go completely cockeyedly, delightfully haywire than it is to mix slapstick with preachment or philosophy.

1983 B. M. Villegas Strategies for Crisis v. 35 Cities Service was cockeyedly optimistic in its assessment of the Nido oil finds.

2005 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 Dec. a31 Life can be a bummer. Sometimes, though, it's so curiously, cockeyedly fair that you can only grin goofily as it passes by.

ˈcockˌeyedness n.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun]

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1858 A. T. Mahan Let. 21 Nov. in Bulletin (Duke Univ. Libr.) (1931) No. 4. 34 Notwithstanding old Gil's cock-eyedness he made the best shot.

1889 Colonist (Launceston, Tasmania) 19 Jan. 13/3 And how about the artistic and other merits of ‘cockeyedness’?

1933 Amer. Photo-engraver June 364/1 John P. Kieffer has a nice case of ‘cockeyedness’ but he insists that it was not brought on by graduated refreshments.

2003 Observer (Nexis) 28 Sept. 27 There are echoes of this moral cockeyedness in the recent accolades accorded to that darling of the anti-globalisation movement, Antonio Negri.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cockeyed
释义	cockeyedadj.adv. Brit. /ˌkɒkˈʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌaɪd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cock v.¹, eyed adj. Etymology: < cock v.¹ + eyed adj. Compare later cockeye n.¹, cockeye adj.Earlier currency (in sense A. 2a) is probably implied by the use in sense A. 1 (compare note at definition). colloquial. A. adj. 1. Originally and chiefly North American. (Very) drunk; intoxicated. Cf. sense B.Probably implying earlier currency of sense A. 2a, of which this appears to be a figurative use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 1737 B. Franklin Drinkers Dict. in Pennsylvania Gaz. 6–13 Jan. 1/3 He's..Cock Ey'd. 1923 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 18 July 6/5 They talked of being ‘ginny’ and ‘cock-eyed’ and how they were laying for this cop and that. 1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xvi. 178 You wouldn't have asked me to marry you if you hadn't been cock-eyed at the time. 1953 J. Thompson Savage Night xviii. 136 I took a bottle up to my room with me, and I got half cockeyed. 2017 S. Carolina Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 5 Sept. But for now, to all of us who value drinking ourselves cockeyed more than getting our lives in order, raise your tall cans. 2. a. Of a person or his or her appearance, expression, etc.: having or characterized by a permanent deviation in the direction of gaze of one or both eyes; cross-eyed, boss-eyed. Cf. cockeye n.¹ 1.In quot. 1751 perhaps as a more general term of abuse. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed wall-eyeda1400 thwartingc1430 gleed1482 pink-eyed1519 goggle1540 squint1579 squint-eyed1589 squinted1591 squinting1611 moon-eyed1623 squink-eyed1632 asquint1643 skew-eyed1658 cockeyed1751 yaw-sighted1751 swivel-eyed1758 cross-eyed1791 slew-eyed1807 skellied1821 squinny-eyeda1825 strabismic1855 boss-eyed1860 strabismical1866 hyperphoric1887 strabismal1891 heterophoric1894 squinty1922 squinty1925 1751 Midwife 2 180 Or you shall feel the Weight of my Resentment, ye old cock-ey'd Jezebel. 1761 Mem. Life Mod. Saint xii. 97 The cock-eyed family are all inspired. 1863 Tyneside Songs 19 Cock-eyed Tom that sells the pies. 1934 Sci. News Let. 13 Jan. 28/1 It is this lack of ability to fix both eyes on a given object that gives the young baby that occasional ‘cross-eyed’ or ‘cock-eyed’ look. 2012 Time Out N.Y. 12 Jan. 36/3 Tina Malhotra begins a diary addressed to Jean-Paul Sartre... As she dreamily ponders J.P.S.'s maxims and cockeyed visage, teenage traumas transpire. b. With reference to the gaze of a person or (less commonly) an animal: directed to the side or from the corner of the eye; sidelong, oblique.In quot. 1896 perhaps specifically with reference to looking in two directions at once; cf. sense A. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways askanted1576 squintinga1593 askance1593 squint1611 leer1631 skaunt1791 squinnya1825 sideways-looking1832 cockeyed1852 skance1866 squinnying1973 1852 Househ. Words 14 Aug. 511/1 The shrewd starlings avoid the place with a sidelong, cock-eyed glance of aversion. 1869 F. W. Robinson For her Sake II. i. xxiv. 20 A cross ‘cock-eyed’ glance, that was not pleasant to encounter. 1896 Daily News 29 Feb. 5/3 It [sc. Bennett-street, St. James's, London] is a gorge that requires a good deal of cock-eyed watching by foot passengers. 1919 N. A. Fuessle Flail xvii. 213 Deshman turned to Dohmer with a cock-eyed look. 2007 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 4 July (Sports section) When Lewis finally found a seat, Bonds shot him a cockeyed look. 3. figurative. a. Topsy-turvy; absurd, ridiculous; crazy, irrational. Cf. cockeye adj. 2.Sometimes with connotations of having a blinkered or skewed outlook. Cf. one-eyed adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] impertinenta1425 royeta1522 absurd1531 preposterous1533 ridiculous1533 deaf?1541 monstrous?1549 fabulous1561 fanatical1598 fantastical1600 laughable1600 fantasticc1616 nonsense1621 arsy-versy1628 absonous1642 nonsensical1645 ridicule?1669 fancical1671 grotesque1747 rich1836 saugrenu1876 laughsome1884 cockeyed1894 hilarious1925 Rube Goldberg1928 whimsy-whamsy1931 Rube Goldbergian1933 cockamamie1941 fantasticated1960 fanciful- 1894 Daily Times (New Brunswick, New Jersey) 18 May Coxeyism is about the worst case of cock-eyed statesmanship that has yet struck the country. 1933 Punch 31 May 597 There doesn't seem to be anyone about in this cock-eyed town. 1945 A. Koestler Twilight Bar i. 30 When it's summer in the North, it's winter in the South. Completely cockeyed. 1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye x. 201 He gathered together the scrap ends of his profligate experience..and turned them into a lot of cock-eyed books. 2009 Harvard Law Rev. 122 1293 I like to remember Ollie as the classical cockeyed optimist. b. Askew, crooked; not level, aslant; awry. Cf. cockeye adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked wough862 crumba1100 wrongc1175 crooked?c1225 crochedc1300 forcrookedc1305 miscrookeda1398 crumpleda1400 kirkeda1425 camshoch1513 crooken1589 awry1728 thraward1814 ajee1816 ahoo1828 crinkly-crankly1850 unstraight1860 cockeye1891 cockeyed1899 crookedy1907 the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew obliquate?a1425 cama1600 ajee1816 askew1831 skew-whiff1839 splay1873 catawampous1885 skewgee1890 cockeye1891 boss-eyed1898 skewy1898 cockeyed1899 squiffy1941 akimbo1943 1899 Shields Daily News 4 Mar. 4/3 If, as is hinted, some of our boulevards are so cock-eyed that they make people fall off their conveyances, then I think we had better put these right. 1907 Broad Way Oct. 145 Can't you put on these glasses better? You know you've got 'em all cockeyed. 1941 Amer. Boy Feb. 5/2 They knocked an oil lead cockeyed. 1967 G. Halls Cats of Benares ii. 23 A portrait of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, hanging cock-eyed on the wall, looked down on us with foggy sentimental eyes. 1991 Gay Times Apr. 64/1 The only radicalism was in the cockeyed camerawork and frenzied editing. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 204 Horst walks in, wearing a cockeyed party hat on his head and doing a Locomotiony dance. B. adv. Originally and chiefly North American. cockeyed drunk: = sense A. 1. ΚΠ 1914 N.Y. Times 19 May 1/1 What in the — was the matter with that bunch. Were they all cock-eyed drunk? 1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl xxii. 263 He told me to get some whiskey and get cockeyed drunk and recover from the wait I had downstairs. 1986 J. Patterson Black Market iii. 35 He hoped to God he looked cockeyed drunk and absolutely helpless. 2015 J. P. Carinci Defying Death in Hagerstown v. 54 I pictured myself in the back of a police car, but this time cockeyed drunk. Compounds cockeyed Bob n. Australian (chiefly in Western Australia and Northern Territory) a cyclone or thunderstorm, esp. one which is sudden and violent, but short-lived; cf. cockeye Bob n. at cockeye n.¹ and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1885 West Australian (Perth) 13 Apr. Last month we had a strong squall (‘Cockeyet [sic] Bob’) which lasted a few minutes and sent verandah lounges, empty boxes, and light vehicles rolling about. 1930 E. R. B. Gribble Forty Years with Aborigines xvii. 173 We had our first experience of a Cock-eyed Bob, or storm of wind, thunder, lightning, and rain. 1952 T. 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. 2010 Comment News (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Mar. 6 Mr Thompson has experienced several cyclones in the North-West but described the winds as being a cock-eyed bob that came up suddenly. Derivatives ˈcockˌeyedly adv. ΚΠ 1927 G. Michel Ach Michel 162 He..was sizing me up cockeyedly. 1941 Scribner's Commentator May 107/1 In painful times, it is a much greater service to the world to go completely cockeyedly, delightfully haywire than it is to mix slapstick with preachment or philosophy. 1983 B. M. Villegas Strategies for Crisis v. 35 Cities Service was cockeyedly optimistic in its assessment of the Nido oil finds. 2005 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 Dec. a31 Life can be a bummer. Sometimes, though, it's so curiously, cockeyedly fair that you can only grin goofily as it passes by. ˈcockˌeyedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 1858 A. T. Mahan Let. 21 Nov. in Bulletin (Duke Univ. Libr.) (1931) No. 4. 34 Notwithstanding old Gil's cock-eyedness he made the best shot. 1889 Colonist (Launceston, Tasmania) 19 Jan. 13/3 And how about the artistic and other merits of ‘cockeyedness’? 1933 Amer. Photo-engraver June 364/1 John P. Kieffer has a nice case of ‘cockeyedness’ but he insists that it was not brought on by graduated refreshments. 2003 Observer (Nexis) 28 Sept. 27 There are echoes of this moral cockeyedness in the recent accolades accorded to that darling of the anti-globalisation movement, Antonio Negri. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1737
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