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blue-eyed, a.
[See blue eye.]
1. a. Having a blue eye or eyes (now in sense c).
1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 269 This blew ey'd hag, was hither brought. 1656Cowley Pind. Odes (1669) 2 The blew-eyed Nereides. 1736Thomson Liberty iv. 670 Strong And yellow-hair'd, the blue-ey'd Saxon came. 1868Wood Homes without H. xxviii. 531 The pretty Blue-eyed Yellow Warbler.
b. fig. Innocent, ingenuous; favoured, esp. in phr. blue-eyed boy.
1924Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror xix. 278 If ever there was a blue-eyed boy, you will be it. 1935Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. ii, You can keep that blue-eyed stuff for the others. 1959Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 4/6 The blue-eyed enthusiasm of a writer. 1963Times 5 Mar. 7/1 During this period, farmers were ‘blue-eyed boys’.
2. blue-eyed grass: Sisyrinchium Bermudianum. U.S.
1784Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. I. 487 Sisyrinchium. Blue-Eyed Grass. Blossoms blue. 1884W. Miller Plant-n. |