cockeyed

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
  2. Crooked or askew.
    — 1950, Langston Hughes, Simple Speaks His Mind, Chapter 12, in The Early Simple Stories, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 7, edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 60–61, This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg.
  3. Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people. informal
    — I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.
  4. Drunk.
    — In the private office he said, "Mr. Barrow, I was going to quit." "Don't do that, son! You're the only executive I've got that isn't cockeyed all the time! […]"

词形变化

more cockeyed comparative most cockeyed superlative cock-eyed alternative,UK

词汇关系

衍生词
cockeyedly cockeyedness
相关词
cockeye

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *kokk
Old English cocc
Middle English cok
English cock
English eyed
English cockeyed
From cock + eyed.
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