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say it: KAH-kahyd
cockeyed is an adjective meaning "turned or twisted toward one side". It carries 3 recorded senses.
so unreasonable as to invite derision
“the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework”
“that's a cockeyed idea”
“ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer”
“a contribution so small as to be laughable”
“it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion”
“a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history”
“her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cockeyed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.