cockeye
[kok-ahy]
- an eye that squints or is affected with strabismus.
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Origin of cockeye
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The worst of them, I think, was a fellow who went by the name of Cockeye.
A Final ReckoningG. A. Henty
"Seems to me no manner of doubt but what he's headed for Cockeye," he said.
The KillerStewart Edward White
"Of course, such fellows as Cockeye and Fothergill are the exceptions, and not the rule," Mr. Blount said.
A Final ReckoningG. A. Henty
It was a bay with a white leg, and I knew that Cockeye used to ride such a horse, and that there wasn't a better in the colony.
A Final ReckoningG. A. Henty
So Curley mounted and we rode on at a walk on the horse trail that led up the broad, shallow wash that came out of Cockeye.
The KillerStewart Edward White
cockeye
- informal an eye affected with strabismus or one that squints
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