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COCK YOUR EYE

Specialty Definition: COCK YOUR EYE

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Cock your Eye (To) 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.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

COCK YOUR EYE. Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COCK YOUR EYE

Specialty definitions using "COCK YOUR EYE": Cock the Nose. (references)

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Anagrams: COCK YOUR EYE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-k-o-o-r-u-y-y"

-4 letters: cockeye, cookery, euryoky.

-5 letters: cocker, coerce, cooker, cookey, cuckoo, euroky, recock, recook.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COCK YOUR EYE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 43 4B      59 4F 55 52      45 59 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01000011 01001011 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 01010010 00100000 01000101 01011001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#89 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#32 &#69 &#89 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0043 004B      0059 004F 0055 0052      0045 0059 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374937452594955522395939

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