different between jockeyed vs cockeyed

English

Verb

jockeyed

1. simple past tense and past participle of jockey

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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