COCKEYED


Meaning of COCKEYED in English

ˈkäˌkīd adjective

1. : having a cockeye or cockeyes

2.

a. : turned, slanted, or twisted off the proper line : askew , awry

his hat is always a little cockeyed

after the house settled, most of the door frames were cockeyed

knock a lamp cockeyed

b. : slightly crazy : confused , wrong , incomprehensible : topsy-turvy

in this cockeyed realm of matter where temperatures are close to absolute zero, tough steel turns brittle, rubber loses its elasticity, and a kind of liquid helium runs straight up — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union

a cockeyed , willful quite unjustified inference from something said — J.M.Barzun

a cockeyed scheme

c. : drunk

gets wonderfully cockeyed in the neighborhood bar — Jane Cobb

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.