gooseberry-eyed
English
editEtymology
editFrom gooseberry + eyed.
Adjective
editgooseberry-eyed (comparative more gooseberry-eyed, superlative most gooseberry-eyed)
- (archaic, British slang) Having prominent and dull grey eyes.
- 1871, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, The Member for Paris, page 31:
- He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]
Related terms
editReferences
edit- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Gooseberry-eyed”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry-eyed”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.