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单词 eyesore
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eyesoren.

Brit. /ˈʌɪsɔː/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsɔr/
Forms:

α. see eye n.1 and sore n.1

β. Middle English eghen sore, Middle English eyen soore.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.1, sore n.1
Etymology: < eye n.1 + sore n.1In the Middle English forms eghen sore, eyen soore apparently with first element in the plural (compare 2α. forms at eye n.1); however, such forms may perhaps represent the reflex of the Old English genitive phrase ēagena sār soreness of the eyes, in which ēagena is genitive plural (compare variant reading in quot. ?a1200 at sense 1). Compare also forms and discussion at eyesight n.
1. Soreness or disease of the eyes. rare and chiefly Indian English after 16th cent.In quot. ?a1300 perhaps an adjective; cf. eyesore adj. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > soreness
eyesore?a1200
eye-soreness1866
?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) xci. 135 Wið eæȝe sare [OE Vitell. eagena sare] & ȝeswelle cnuca ruta.
?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) ix, in Anglia (1881) 4 192 Betere is heye sor [a1325 Cambr. Gg 1.1 þe heie sore, a1350 Harl. eye sor], þen al blind.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 604 Therwith me may hele her eyen soore [c1450 Bodl. Add. eghen sore].
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xvii. sig. Aviiv Muche lookyng so, breedth much eie sore.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 76 Dates..ar hurtfull for them that haue..the eysore and..the tooth ache.
1915 Times of India 20 Jan. 10/5 (advt.) Trial of Actima on one of my relatives suffering from eye-sore, proved miraculously good.
1964 Anthropos 59 116 The same treatment is used in the daytime if the child cries incessantly or suffers from diarrhoea, bronchitis or eye-sore.
1995 D. Varadarajan Cost-benefit Anal. Bio-gas Plants i. 7 The utilisation of bio-gas freed the housewives from eye-sore, eye and lung diseases.
2.
a. Something that is highly unpleasant to look at; an ugly thing or feature; a blight, a monstrosity. In later use esp.: a building or structure regarded as spoiling or marring the appearance of its surrounding environment.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing
eyesore1530
blind side1606
dissightc1710
ugly1755
desight1828
eye-sorrow1828
sight1862
a blot (up)on the landscape1912
to be no oil painting1919
1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. viii. sig. g Ye spottes..be..a great deformyte & eye sore.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 263 These eysores and blemishes in continuall attendants about the seruice of Gods Sanctuarie.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. ii. 15 To bee..sickle hought behinde, that is somewhat crooked in the cambrell ioynt,..is not amisse, though it bee a little eye-sore.
1641 J. Taylor Brownists Conventicle 7 There is another crosse, which is our eare-sore, as well as our eye-sore, deare brethren, that is, those pipes.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 19/2 He is continually repenting and fretting at the Eye-sore.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire (ed. 2) I. 192 A rough grazing ground is an eyesore; a scab which disfigures the face of a country; and grows offensive with age.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 136 This, in parks much exposed, is found a very serious eye-sore.
1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry viii. 288 All the eyesores on the Surrey bank of the river.
1929 C. Beaton Diary 8 Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) i. 9 I found that box trees..were put under these tents for winter protection, making the garden an eyesore for four months of the year.
1991 New Builder 12 Sept. 5/5 The department's current building..was built in the 1960s and has been universally condemned as a concrete eyesore.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 1 Sept. 4/1 The 50,000 square-foot facility lay abandoned, a moldering, barbwire-enclosed eyesore.
b. figurative and in extended use. A person or (less commonly) a thing whose presence is offensive, annoying, or troublesome (to someone); a nuisance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation
thornc1230
dreicha1275
painc1375
cumbrance1377
diseasec1386
a hair in one's necka1450
molestationc1460
incommodity?a1475
melancholya1475
ensoigne1477
annoyance1502
traik1513
incommode1518
corsie1548
eyesore1548
fashery1558
cross1573
spite1577
corrosive1578
wasp1588
cumber1589
infliction1590
gall1591
distaste1602
plague1604
rub1642
disaccommodation1645
disgust1654
annoyment1659
bogle1663
rubber1699
noyancea1715
chagrins1716
ruffle1718
fasha1796
nuisance1814
vex1815
drag1857
bugbear1880
nark1918
pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933
sod1940
chizz1953
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xvi. f. 137 The Lazaro man beeyng ful of botches and blames, might not bee suffred to come in, leste with the syghte of hym beyng deadly to beholde, he myght haue bene an iyesore to all the coumpaignie, and myghte turne the merye there of al the whole feaste into sadnesse.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 47/1 in Chron. I I wote well how great an eye sore [1587 eiesore] I am in your sight.
a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 98 Thou shalt be a burthen, and an Eye sore to thy friends.
1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxvi. 353 Wicked men, to whom his Person for his piety was an eye-sore.
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 125 The French..to whom they [sc. the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, etc.] have always been an Eye-sore, to have them so near their Coast, and yet in the English Possession.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. ii. 205 The onion patches of Pyquag were a continual eye sore to the garrison of Van Curlet.
1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) x. 206 Many of their neighbours are eyesores to them, and the very sight of them interrupts their repose.
1957 G. Brandes Naturalism in 19th Cent. Eng. Lit. xxi. 339 Wherever he resided, he was an eyesore to the Austrian authorities.
2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 2/5 Tariq became an eyesore and was publicly censured for his decisions and behaviour.
c. On a horse: a scar; (also) a flaw, a defect. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses
trench?a1450
colt-evilc1460
affreyd?1523
cholera1566
crick1566
incording1566
leprosy1566
taint1566
eyesore1576
fistula1576
wrench1578
birth1600
garrot1600
stithy1600
stifling1601
stranglings1601
hungry evil1607
pose1607
crest-fall1609
pompardy1627
felteric1639
quick-scab1639
shingles1639
clap1684
sudden taking1688
bunches1706
flanks1706
strangles1706
chest-founderingc1720
body-founder1737
influenza1792
foundering1802
horse-sickness1822
stag-evil1823
strangullion1830
shivering1847
dourine1864
swamp fever1870
African horse sickness1874
horse-pox1884
African horse disease1888
wind-stroke1890
thump1891
leucoencephalitis1909
western equine encephalitis1933
stachybotryotoxicosis1945
rhinopneumonitis1957
1576 Remedies Dis. Horses sig. Aivv Let the horse ryse and with one dressyng it will ridde.., without any eye sore or blemishe.
1678 London Gaz. No. 1346/4 A dapple grey Gelding..an eye sore above his hoof upon one of his hinder legs.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 18 He's the best piece of Man's flesh in the Market, not an Eye-sore in his whole body.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4795/4 An Eye-sore on the near hind Foot caused in Pacing.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 352 I found both horses in pitfalls,..bruised, and with horrid, unsightly scars and eyesores on them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

eyesoreadj.

Brit. /ˈʌɪsɔː/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsɔr/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.1, sore adj.1
Etymology: < eye n.1 + sore adj.1Much earlier currency (in sense 2) is perhaps shown by quot. ?a1300 at eyesore n. 1; compare note at that entry.
1. Esp. of a building or landscape: unpleasant to look at; ugly, unsightly. Cf. eyesore n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective]
foulOE
uglyc1386
malgraciousa1393
unsightlya1400
loathc1400
ouglec1415
shrewdc1430
unsightyc1440
unwholesome?a1500
evil-favoured1530
ill-favoured1530
uglisome1530
huggeda1533
hard-favoureda1535
evil-liking1535
ill-favorited1579
stigmatical1589
stigmatic1597
sightlessa1616
hard-featured1638
grislya1681
bad-looking1757
unmackly1765
unfavourable1776
dissightly1777
eyesore1798
wavelled1886
spiderly1891
Plain Jane1912
hackit1985
1798 G. Washington Let. 5 Apr. in Papers (1998) Retirement Ser. II. 227 Injurious and eye-sore gullies.
1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xviii. 361 Her cavaliere servente, finding her bald, meagre, and eyesore, renewed his addresses to the mother.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 59 Antiquated and eyesore erections.
1974 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 19 Sept. Some of the most eyesore areas in the country.
2013 Chorley Citizen (Nexis) 13 June An eyesore building which has been a blot on Chorley's town centre for a decade.
2. Having sore or tired eyes.
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1842 J. F. Murray Environs London 173 We are now somewhat weary and eye-sore with much picture-viewing.
1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure xxxiv. 328 Dusty and eyesore and deeply begrimed as to our garments, [we] set foot..in Agra.
1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 27 Feb. (2000) 340 And so, eyesore & tetchy, to bed & tomorrow less grim.
1999 C. E. Eaton Scout in Summer 17 A pitched aesthetic of assaulted vision... One should be eyesore when the sun sets red.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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