| E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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is to shut one eye and look with the other; to glance at. A cock-eye is a squinting eye, and cock-eyed is having squinting eyes. In many phrases, cock means to turn. (See above.) | 1 |
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