cock-eye

"Letter for yer, sir, yezsir," said my friend the cock-eyed waiter a week or two later, while we were at luncheon, bringing in a long, official-looking document on a salver, which he proceeded to hand me with a smirk and a squint from his cock-eye, that seemed to roam all over the apartment, taking in everything and everyone present in one comprehensive glance.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

There's his cock-eye looking straight at me through the wooden

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

"Don't see now you can make Latin prose much more cock-eye than it is, but we'll try," said Beetle, transposing an _aliud_ and _Asiae_ from two sentences.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

And urge the duty of the covenant upon them, and when they are on foot, hold them going; lead them to the fountain and cock-eye.

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

"If we had waited but a little he would have given more, -- this cock-eye!" regretted Manuel querulously.

The Story of a Mine Bret Harte 1869

He was a universal favourite; and even Chuck Farthing, the gentleman jockey, with a cock-eye and a knowing shake of his head, squeaked out, in a sporting treble, one of his monstrous fudges about the Prince in days of yore, and swore that, like his Royal Highness, the young Duke made the Market all alive.

The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

As in humans, animals whose eyes are frontally located could exhibit a condition in which the eyeballs are converging towards or away from the nose ( 'cock-eye').

Stabroek News Dr Steve Surujbally 2009

But there’s a certain little nobleman with a cock-eye — you know the patriot I’m alluding to?”

Dubliners 2003

"'Bunt, the storm-center of this here low area is a man with a cock-eye, an' I'll back that play with a paint horse against a paper dime. '

The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock 1995

But there's a certain little nobleman with a cock-eye -- you know the patriot I'm alluding to? "

Dubliners James Joyce 1911