Cross-eyed

Definition: Cross-eyed

Cross-eyed

Adjective

1. Having convergent strabismus.

Date "cross-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Antonym: walleyed (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Cross-eyed

English words defined with "cross-eyed": boss-eyed ♦ squint. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cross-eyed": vdiff. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You better tell me before I slap you cross-eyed! (Cedric the Entertainer Presents; writing credit: Charles Peattie; Mark Warren) He's a foot short for his age, and he's cross-eyed. (Dennis the Menace; writing credit: John Hughes)
Clever	If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	The Cross-Eyed Lion Clarence (1965)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (reference) Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule: Appalachian Mountain Humor (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Cross-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cross-eyed" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	24	71,196

Language		Translations for "cross-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vangosh (cockeye, squint eyed, wall eyed), vëngërt, vëngërosh (squint eyed). (various references)

Arabic		‏أحول العينين (be cross eyed, become cross eyed, squinting, walled), ‏أحول (cock eyed, squint). (various references)

Bulgarian		кривоглед (cockeyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, squinting, strabismic, swivel-eyed). (various references)

Chinese		斗眼 . (various references)

Czech		šilhavý (cock eyed, cockeyed, squint, squint eyed). (various references)

French		qui louche, bigleux. (various references)

German		schielend (cockeyed, leeringly, squint eyed, squinting), schieläugig (boss-eyed, squint eyed), scheel (disparaging, envious, jealous). (various references)

Greek		γκαβός, αλλήθωροσ (squint eyed). (various references)

Hungarian		kancsal (be cross eyed, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, swivel-eyed). (various references)

Indonesian		juling (lynx, squint). (various references)

Italian		strabico (cockeyed, squint, squinter, squinting, strabismus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		内斜視 (strabismus), 寄り目 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ないしゃし (strabismus), よりめ. (various references)

Manx		cam-hooillagh (squinting). (various references)

Pig Latin		oss-eyedcray.(various references)

Portuguese		estrábico (cockeye, cockeyed, leer, swivel-eyed). (various references)

Russian		косоглазый (cock eyed, cockeyed, skew eyed, skew-eyed, squint, squinter), косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, leer, oblique, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, thwart, walleyed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zrikav (be cross eyed, goggle, squint), razrok (cock eyed, skew eyed, squint, squinteyed, swivel-eyed). (various references)

Spanish		bizco (boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeye, skew eyed, squint eyed, squinting). (various references)

Swedish		skelögd (cockeyed, squint eyed, walleyed). (various references)

Turkish		şaşı (boss-eyed, cockeyed, crosseyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, squinting). (various references)

Ukrainian		косоокий (cock eyed, cockeyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, squinting, swivel-eyed, wall eyed), косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay). (various references)

Vietnamese		hội tụ. (various references)

Welsh		llygatgroes. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-o-r-s-s-y"
	-1 letter: decoyers.
	-2 letters: crossed, decoyer, ecdyses, recodes, screeds.
	-3 letters: ceders, cessed, coders, corses, coseys, credos, creeds, crosse, cyders, cyeses, decors, decoys, descry, dosers, dosser, dressy, drossy, erodes, eroses, recess, recode, redoes, redyes, resods, scored, scores, screed, screes, scrods, seders, sycees, yessed.
	-4 letters: ceder, cedes, cered, ceres, ceros, coder, codes, coeds, cords, cored, cores, corse, coses.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-o-r-s-s-y"
	+3 letters: compressedly.
	+5 letters: decarboxylases.
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Cross-eyed

Definition: Cross-eyed

Cross-eyed

Adjective

Crosswords: Cross-eyed

Modern Usage: Cross-eyed

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Modern Translation: Cross-eyed

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Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

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