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one-eyed, a.|ˈwʌnˌaɪd|
1. a. Having only one eye; also, blind of one eye.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxxiii. 321 Þa com þider sum broþor se wæs aneᵹede. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 102 Be þay hol, be þay halt, be þay on-yȝed. c1440Promp. Parv. 365/1 Oone eyyd, monoculus, monotalmus. c1550Cheke Matt. xviii. 9 Better it is for ye to enter ooneied into lijf. 1603Dekker Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 3 Look how yon one-ey'd waggoner of heaven Hath..Burst ope the melancholy jail of night. 1665Marvell Char. Holland, Among the blind the one-ey'd blinkard reigns. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 475 From all their dens the one-ey'd race repair. 1819Shelley Cyclops 24 The one-eyed children of the Ocean God, The man-destroying Cyclopses. 1858Lytton What will he do i. xii, Waife was still one-eyed and a cripple.
†b. U.S. slang. Dishonest. Obs.
1833Sk. & Eccentr. D. Crockett i. 24 In the slang of the backwoods, one swore that he would never be ‘one-eyed’.
2. a. As a general term of disapproval or contempt: small, inferior, inadequate, unimportant; = one-horse a. 2, esp. of a town. colloq. (orig. U.S. or dial.).
1871D. G. Rossetti Let. 28 Oct. (1967) III. 1021 A little hamlet called Kelmscott, the nearest town to which is Lechlade,—that being however but a ‘one-eyed’ town as the Yankees say. 1881Hardy Laodicean III. 246, I shouldn't care for such a one-eyed benefit as that. 1887Parish & Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 111 ‘That's a middlin' one-eyed place.’ ‘I can't make nothin' of these here one-eyed new-fashioned tunes they've took-to in church; why they've a'most done afore I can make a start.’ 1937G. Heyer They found him Dead i. 19, I wasn't born to this humdrum life in a one-eyed town. 1947E. Afr. Ann. 1946–7 101/2 Some had said it was a grand little town; others, a one-eyed hole! 1977Times 14 May 8/7 In its somewhat one-eyed way, it [sc. Tobago] is among the loveliest..of all the Caribbean islands.
b. Narrow in outlook; prejudiced, narrow-minded. Hence one-eyedness.
1863J. Brown Let. Mar. (1912) 206, I do believe the man thinks he is doing God service and is honest in his way, though vain and one-eyed to ludicrosity, as you have most thoroughly and delightfully shown. 1874Swinburne Let. July (1959) II. 302 With all his rhetorical power, he [sc. J. A. Froude] seems to me (even apart from his one-eyed prepossession and palpable special pleading) but a shallow reader of character. 1921G. B. Shaw Back of Methuselah p. li, There is no reason to suspect Weismann of Sadism... It was a mere piece of one-eyedness; and it was Darwin who put out Weismann's humane and sensible eye. 1971Austral. Seacraft June 4/2 It seems your correspondent is one-eyed so far as the southern part of Australia is concerned. |