different between cockeyed vs walleyed

English

Alternative forms

• cock-eyed (British)

Etymology

cock +? eyed

Adjective

cockeyed (comparative more cockeyed, superlative most cockeyed)

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. (informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:absurd
4. Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1934, Sinclair Lewis, Work of Art, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter 12, p. 166,

     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! […] "

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English

Alternative forms

• wall-eyed

Adjective

walleyed (comparative more walleyed, superlative most walleyed)

1. having eyes with a pale-coloured iris
2. having eyes of different colours
3. suffering from exotropia
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 3, [1]

     […] this is the bloodiest shame, / The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, / That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage / Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 2, [2]

     A nose of land ran out into the sea from Tanoo and split the village into two parts; the parts diverged at a slight angle, so that the village of Tanoo had a wall-eyed stare out over the sea.

   • 1967, Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, translated by Michael Glenny, Signet, Book One, Chapter 18, p. 197,

     The little man only came up to Poplavsky's shoulder, but he reduced him to mortal terror with his fang, his knife and his walleyed squint, and he had an air of cool, calculating energy.

4. (of fish) having bulging eyes

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