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# cockeyed

«cockeyed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Crooked, not straight or level, like a cockeyed picture** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (cockeyed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Crooked, not straight or level, like a cockeyed picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#m1)

2) (informal) Silly or not sensible, like a cockeyed plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#m2)

3) (old-fashioned, can be unkind) Having eyes that look in different directions; cross-eyed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and stories it describes crooked hats and pictures or foolish ideas. Phrases: "a cockeyed idea", "knocked cockeyed".

### examples

- The picture on the wall is cockeyed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#x1)
- His hat sat cockeyed on his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#x2)
- That's a cockeyed idea; it'll never work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#x3)
- The fence leans at a cockeyed angle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#x4)
- The cartoon cat looked cockeyed after the bump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/#x5)

### note

Informal. Using it about someone's eyes can be hurtful; say "has a squint" or "has a lazy eye" instead. Sometimes spelled "cock-eyed".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cockeyed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockeyed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.