Meaning of Cockeye | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An eye affected by strabismus.
2. The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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