gravel-blindadj.

Forms: see gravel n. and blind adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gravel n., blind adj.

Etymology: Humorously < gravel n. + blind adj., after sand-blind adj. (compare discussion at that entry). Compare earlier stone-blind adj.

Originally high-gravel-blind, in Shakespeare a jocular intensive synonym for sand-blind adj. Hence used by later writers for ‘nearly stone-blind’. Also figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind

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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 33 This is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand blinde, high grauell blinde, knowes me not.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 154 One old woman, who, being nearly ‘high-gravel blind’, was only conscious that something very fine and glittering was passing by.

1841 W. H. Prescott in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1864) 95 (note) Pity that his love for the ancients made him high gravel-blind to the merits of the moderns.

1845 T. Hood Tim Turpin 1 Tim Turpin he was gravel blind.

1887 E. Gilliat Forest Outlaws 240 There be a power of signs to tell us what's coming, if we were not gravel-blind.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	gravel-blind
释义	gravel-blindadj. Forms: see gravel n. and blind adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gravel n., blind adj. Etymology: Humorously < gravel n. + blind adj., after sand-blind adj. (compare discussion at that entry). Compare earlier stone-blind adj. Originally high-gravel-blind, in Shakespeare a jocular intensive synonym for sand-blind adj. Hence used by later writers for ‘nearly stone-blind’. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 33 This is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand blinde, high grauell blinde, knowes me not. View more context for this quotation 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 154 One old woman, who, being nearly ‘high-gravel blind’, was only conscious that something very fine and glittering was passing by. 1841 W. H. Prescott in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1864) 95 (note) Pity that his love for the ancients made him high gravel-blind to the merits of the moderns. 1845 T. Hood Tim Turpin 1 Tim Turpin he was gravel blind. 1887 E. Gilliat Forest Outlaws 240 There be a power of signs to tell us what's coming, if we were not gravel-blind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1600
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