cockeyed

[ kok-ahyd ]

adjective

1. cross-eyed.
2. having a squinting eye.
3. twisted, tilted, or slanted to one side.
4. Slang.
   1. foolish; absurd.
   2. intoxicated; drunk.
   3. completely wrong.

cockeyed

/ ˈkɒkˌaɪd /

adjective

1. afflicted with cross-eye, squint, or any other visible abnormality of the eyes
2. appearing to be physically or logically abnormal, absurd, etc; crooked; askew

   cockeyed ideas

3. drunk

Other Words From

• cock·eyed·ly [kok, -ahyd-lee, -ahy-id-], adverb
• cockeyedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cockeyed¹

1715–25; cock ² (v.) + eyed

Example Sentences

For that bit of cockeyed optimism, NASA has history on its side.

From Time

He has the shiny vinyl good looks of a Ken doll and, when he wants to turn it on, a slightly vapid demeanor that comes off as cockeyed confidence.

From Time

He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.

From The Daily Beast

Except on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally.

From Project Gutenberg

Another wild goose chase, but somewhere along this cockeyed row there was an angle.

From Project Gutenberg

I fumbled around for a beginning, and then I decided to start right at the beginning, whether it sounded cockeyed or not.

From Project Gutenberg

After only two weeks on the job, on a strange planet ninety light-years from home, you don't tell your boss he's cockeyed.

From Project Gutenberg

Sure, and maybe that was a very cockeyed view for Dawson to take, too.

From Project Gutenberg