blue-eyedadj.

Brit.

/ˌbluːˈʌɪd/, U.S.

/ˈbluˌaɪd/

Forms: see blue adj. and n. and eyed adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., eyed adj.

Etymology: < blue adj. + eyed adj.

a. Having eyes with blue irises.In quot. 1625, figurative and poetic.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > types of eyes by colour > having

grey-eyed1534

green-eyed1553

blue-eyed1572

black-eyed1576

yellow-eyed1593

white-eyed1607

red-eyed?1609

ferret-eyed1699

golden-eyed1763

light-eyeda1795

pink-eyed1830

brown-eyed1865

sloe-eyed1869

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Blewe eyed, Cæsuliæ. Qui ont les yeux pers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 270 This blew ey'd hag, was hither brought.

1625 N. Carpenter tr. Virgil in Geogr. Delineated i. ix. 204 The blew-eyed Ice and brackish showres.

1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes (1669) 2 The blew-eyed Nereides.

1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 670 Strong And yellow-hair'd, the blue-ey'd Saxon came.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 573 Then blue-eyed Pallas with fresh force Invigour'd Diomede.

1822 Edinb. Rev. 199 Brenda, the laughing blue-eyed blonde.

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxviii. 531 The pretty Blue-eyed Yellow Warbler.

1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd iv. i. 147 The Archduchess, a fair, blue-eyed, full-figured, round-lipped maiden.

1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 10/2 Jim looked about the room and found the old bowler under a chair with a blue-eyed kitten curled up in it.

2000 PrintWeek 11 Feb. 75/3 Complete poppet. Looks like a blue-eyed Eric Cantona.

b. figurative. Innocent, ingenuous. Cf. blue-eyed boy n. at Compounds. [Perhaps in allusion to the characteristic blue eyes of newborn babies.]

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent

simple?c1225

innocenta1382

simple-hearted?c1425

unsubtlea1500

indolec1550

naïfc1598

sacklessa1600

plain-hearted1601

unnooked1602

unguileful1604

onefold1606

naivea1614

innocentious1624

innocential1628

excuseless1640

uncrafty1647

craftless1650

ingenuousa1662

innocentive1661

unartful1703

artless1714

ingénue1848

blue-eyed1903

1903 T. W. H. Crosland Lovely Woman xvi. 124 Innocence of the most blue-eyed character is, according to these worthies, woman's chief attribute.

1908 A. M. N. Lyons Arthur's 220 Yaller Boots ain't no blue-eyed novice be a long chalk.

1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. ii You can keep that blue-eyed stuff for the others.

1959 Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 4/6 The blue-eyed enthusiasm of a writer.

1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Mag.) 14/3 It may be too blue-eyed for anyone to believe,..but we did this not for profit but for the sake of producing the finest dictionary that was in us.

a. Relating to or consisting of white people, characterized as having blue eyes; Caucasian; (often) spec. of northern European origin or ancestry.Originally contrasted with ‘brown-eyed’ southern Europeans; more recently with people of African or Asian ethnicity, or with Jewish people.See also blue-eyed devil n. at Compounds.In quots. 1947, 1992: (in the terminology of Australian composer Percy Grainger (1882–1961)) designating or relating to a form of English intended to contain words of Germanic origin only.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [adjective]

European1666

white1726

whitey1798

Caucasian1807

paleface1830

blue-eyed1838

papalagi1844

Caucasic1890

Caucasoid1902

ofay1911

leucoderm1924

pinko-grey1924

pink1930

ladino1934

mzungu1961

honky1967

mlungu1973

umlungu1976

palagi1977

1838 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 20 Oct. 281/1 To the son of the ‘blue-eyed race’, music is another sense.

1891 F. W. Bain Treachery 232 You may perhaps be very well acquainted with the character of your blue-eyed nation.

1933 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 327/2 Dr. Gercke does throw a left-handed compliment to the blue-eyed races outside Germany, explaining ‘While all Germans are Aryans, all Aryans are not Germans’.

1947 P. Grainger in M. Gillies et al. Self-portrait of Percy Grainger (2006) iii. 42 There is no attempt to write this sketch in my ‘Blue-eyed English’ (Nordic English), because..one cannot write freely when one is trying to create & reform a language at the same time.

1992 Oxf. Compan. Eng. Lang. 138/1 He [sc. Percy Grainger] worked on an unpublished ‘Blue-eyed dictionary’ and sought to rid his own usage as far as possible of non-Germanic elements.

2016 Southern Cultures Fall Suppl. 2 She will have the brown eyes that can look straight through a blue-eyed culture.

b. Designating music written or performed by a white artist or group in a genre created by and predominantly associated with black writers and performers. Originally and chiefly in blue-eyed soul.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [adjective] > other folk music

Celtic1816

down home1907

old-time1908

mariachi1940

klezmer1961

rootsy1962

blue-eyed1965

sakkie-sakkie1970

old-timey1972

pseudo-folk1976

norteña1983

1965 Billboard 9 Oct. 1/3 White artists are being played more and more frequently and the product is referred to as ‘blue-eyed soul’.

1973 Cash Box 7 July 27/2 We will have blue-eyed blues since that's the idiom most of the pop/rock audience is able to swing with.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 May b1 He [sc. David Bowie] moved from blues to mime to pseudo-pop to folk to glam-rock to pre-punk to blue-eyed funk.

2008 Magnet No. 79. 107/1 ‘Magpies’ verges on blue-eyed soul, with horns and smooth, soft-rock backing vocals.

Compounds

blue-eyed boy n. a boy (or man) who is highly regarded by someone, or who is treated with special favour (esp. without adequate justification); a person's favourite; cf. sense 1b.Frequently somewhat depreciative.

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the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] > state or condition of being a favourite > favourite or pet

darlingc888

favoura1387

dandilly?a1513

tidling1520

marmoset1523

white son1539

minion1566

favourite1582

white boyc1600

feddle1611

dautie1676

inclination1691

mother's pet1819

fair-haired boy1822

pet1825

white-haired boy1829

petsywetsy1847

blue-eyed boy1919

fave1938

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress i. 21 He's the blue-eyed boy, and everybody else is an also-ran.

1929 Star 21 Aug. 15/4 The teacher's blue-eyed boy who can do no wrong!

1963 Times 5 Mar. 7/1 During this period, farmers were ‘blue-eyed boys’.

1992 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) 6 Sept. (New Delhi ed.) (Colour Mag.) 10/5 Flamboyant, extrovertish,..and considered to be the blue-eyed boy of the captains of the industry.

2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxx. 337 There's your precious blue-eyed boy! Do you know what he's just said to me?

blue-eyed devil n. a white person (used as a derogatory term by some black or other non-white speakers).

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1894 Boston Sunday Globe 3 June 32/1 There goes a pig-goat blue-eyed devil.

1964 Social Forces 42 320/2 Look at our people, who have rejected their slave-master and their slave religion, and have thrown off the vices taught by the blue-eyed devils.

2001 C. P. Baker Mi moto Fidel viii. 143 This blue-eyed devil is like all the others. He's interested only in dividing us, in stealing our women.

blue-eyed grass n. North American any of various annual and perennial plants constituting the genus Sisyrinchium, some of which have blue or bluish flowers; cf. sisyrinchium n. 2.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American

salt grass1704

wiregrass1751

Indian grass1765

buffalo grass1784

blue-eyed grass1785

mountain rice1790

nimble Will1816

yard-grass1822

mesquite1831

poverty-grass1832

tickle-moth1833

bunch-grass1837

naked-beard grass1848

needle grass1848

Means grass1858

toothache-grass1860

Johnson grass1873

Indian rice grass1893

nigger babies1897

St. Augustine grass1905

pinyon ricegrass1935

1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 487 Sisyrinchium. Blue-Eyed Grass. Blossoms blue.

1865 Harper's Mag. Mar. 424 Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass He turned them into the river-lane; One after another he let them pass, Then fastened the meadow bars again.

1915 C. V. Piper & R. K. Beattie Flora Northwest Coast 105 Sisyrinchium. Blue-eyed Grass... Perennial tufted slender herbs.

1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xxxiii. 233 It winked with blue-eyed grass and yellow grassflowers.

2006 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 23 Mar. h30 At Chabot Regional Park, Bort Meadow and Grass Valley can be wall-to-wall blue-eyed grass and wild radish.

blue-eyed Mary n. (a) any of several North American plants of the genus Collinsia (family Plantaginaceae) having bicoloured (blue or purple and white) flowers; esp. C. verna, an annual of eastern areas; (b) the southern European navelwort, Omphalodes verna, a low-growing creeping plant with bright blue flowers.

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1887 Jrnl. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. July 53 Collinsia... verna... Blue eyed Mary.

1898 Gardeners' Chron. 2 July 4/2 Blue-eyed Mary, Omphalodes verna, in its blue and white varieties, and big patches of Dog-tooth Violets.

1913 H. S. Adams Flower Gardening 15 Is it too small a thing to bestow the name Mary's garden on a generous planting of ‘blue-eyed Mary’..?

1947 New Castle (Pa.) News 8 May 7 Some clumps of the fragile collinsia, the blue-eyed Mary.

2000 K. Levine Plant This! 21/2 Omphalodes verna (blue-eyed Mary): Politely colonizes by underground stems.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	blue-eyed
释义	blue-eyedadj. Brit. /ˌbluːˈʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈbluˌaɪd/ Forms: see blue adj. and n. and eyed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., eyed adj. Etymology: < blue adj. + eyed adj. 1. a. Having eyes with blue irises.In quot. 1625, figurative and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > types of eyes by colour > having grey-eyed1534 green-eyed1553 blue-eyed1572 black-eyed1576 yellow-eyed1593 white-eyed1607 red-eyed?1609 ferret-eyed1699 golden-eyed1763 light-eyeda1795 pink-eyed1830 brown-eyed1865 sloe-eyed1869 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Blewe eyed, Cæsuliæ. Qui ont les yeux pers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 270 This blew ey'd hag, was hither brought. 1625 N. Carpenter tr. Virgil in Geogr. Delineated i. ix. 204 The blew-eyed Ice and brackish showres. 1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes (1669) 2 The blew-eyed Nereides. 1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 670 Strong And yellow-hair'd, the blue-ey'd Saxon came. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 573 Then blue-eyed Pallas with fresh force Invigour'd Diomede. 1822 Edinb. Rev. 199 Brenda, the laughing blue-eyed blonde. 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxviii. 531 The pretty Blue-eyed Yellow Warbler. 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd iv. i. 147 The Archduchess, a fair, blue-eyed, full-figured, round-lipped maiden. 1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 10/2 Jim looked about the room and found the old bowler under a chair with a blue-eyed kitten curled up in it. 2000 PrintWeek 11 Feb. 75/3 Complete poppet. Looks like a blue-eyed Eric Cantona. b. figurative. Innocent, ingenuous. Cf. blue-eyed boy n. at Compounds. [Perhaps in allusion to the characteristic blue eyes of newborn babies.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent simple?c1225 innocenta1382 simple-hearted?c1425 unsubtlea1500 indolec1550 naïfc1598 sacklessa1600 plain-hearted1601 unnooked1602 unguileful1604 onefold1606 naivea1614 innocentious1624 innocential1628 excuseless1640 uncrafty1647 craftless1650 ingenuousa1662 innocentive1661 unartful1703 artless1714 ingénue1848 blue-eyed1903 1903 T. W. H. Crosland Lovely Woman xvi. 124 Innocence of the most blue-eyed character is, according to these worthies, woman's chief attribute. 1908 A. M. N. Lyons Arthur's 220 Yaller Boots ain't no blue-eyed novice be a long chalk. 1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. ii You can keep that blue-eyed stuff for the others. 1959 Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 4/6 The blue-eyed enthusiasm of a writer. 1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Mag.) 14/3 It may be too blue-eyed for anyone to believe,..but we did this not for profit but for the sake of producing the finest dictionary that was in us. 2. a. Relating to or consisting of white people, characterized as having blue eyes; Caucasian; (often) spec. of northern European origin or ancestry.Originally contrasted with ‘brown-eyed’ southern Europeans; more recently with people of African or Asian ethnicity, or with Jewish people.See also blue-eyed devil n. at Compounds.In quots. 1947, 1992: (in the terminology of Australian composer Percy Grainger (1882–1961)) designating or relating to a form of English intended to contain words of Germanic origin only. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [adjective] European1666 white1726 whitey1798 Caucasian1807 paleface1830 blue-eyed1838 papalagi1844 Caucasic1890 Caucasoid1902 ofay1911 leucoderm1924 pinko-grey1924 pink1930 ladino1934 mzungu1961 honky1967 mlungu1973 umlungu1976 palagi1977 1838 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 20 Oct. 281/1 To the son of the ‘blue-eyed race’, music is another sense. 1891 F. W. Bain Treachery 232 You may perhaps be very well acquainted with the character of your blue-eyed nation. 1933 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 327/2 Dr. Gercke does throw a left-handed compliment to the blue-eyed races outside Germany, explaining ‘While all Germans are Aryans, all Aryans are not Germans’. 1947 P. Grainger in M. Gillies et al. Self-portrait of Percy Grainger (2006) iii. 42 There is no attempt to write this sketch in my ‘Blue-eyed English’ (Nordic English), because..one cannot write freely when one is trying to create & reform a language at the same time. 1992 Oxf. Compan. Eng. Lang. 138/1 He [sc. Percy Grainger] worked on an unpublished ‘Blue-eyed dictionary’ and sought to rid his own usage as far as possible of non-Germanic elements. 2016 Southern Cultures Fall Suppl. 2 She will have the brown eyes that can look straight through a blue-eyed culture. b. Designating music written or performed by a white artist or group in a genre created by and predominantly associated with black writers and performers. Originally and chiefly in blue-eyed soul. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [adjective] > other folk music Celtic1816 down home1907 old-time1908 mariachi1940 klezmer1961 rootsy1962 blue-eyed1965 sakkie-sakkie1970 old-timey1972 pseudo-folk1976 norteña1983 1965 Billboard 9 Oct. 1/3 White artists are being played more and more frequently and the product is referred to as ‘blue-eyed soul’. 1973 Cash Box 7 July 27/2 We will have blue-eyed blues since that's the idiom most of the pop/rock audience is able to swing with. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 May b1 He [sc. David Bowie] moved from blues to mime to pseudo-pop to folk to glam-rock to pre-punk to blue-eyed funk. 2008 Magnet No. 79. 107/1 ‘Magpies’ verges on blue-eyed soul, with horns and smooth, soft-rock backing vocals. Compounds blue-eyed boy n. a boy (or man) who is highly regarded by someone, or who is treated with special favour (esp. without adequate justification); a person's favourite; cf. sense 1b.Frequently somewhat depreciative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] > state or condition of being a favourite > favourite or pet darlingc888 favoura1387 dandilly?a1513 tidling1520 marmoset1523 white son1539 minion1566 favourite1582 white boyc1600 feddle1611 dautie1676 inclination1691 mother's pet1819 fair-haired boy1822 pet1825 white-haired boy1829 petsywetsy1847 blue-eyed boy1919 fave1938 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress i. 21 He's the blue-eyed boy, and everybody else is an also-ran. 1929 Star 21 Aug. 15/4 The teacher's blue-eyed boy who can do no wrong! 1963 Times 5 Mar. 7/1 During this period, farmers were ‘blue-eyed boys’. 1992 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) 6 Sept. (New Delhi ed.) (Colour Mag.) 10/5 Flamboyant, extrovertish,..and considered to be the blue-eyed boy of the captains of the industry. 2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxx. 337 There's your precious blue-eyed boy! Do you know what he's just said to me? blue-eyed devil n. a white person (used as a derogatory term by some black or other non-white speakers). ΚΠ 1894 Boston Sunday Globe 3 June 32/1 There goes a pig-goat blue-eyed devil. 1964 Social Forces 42 320/2 Look at our people, who have rejected their slave-master and their slave religion, and have thrown off the vices taught by the blue-eyed devils. 2001 C. P. Baker Mi moto Fidel viii. 143 This blue-eyed devil is like all the others. He's interested only in dividing us, in stealing our women. blue-eyed grass n. North American any of various annual and perennial plants constituting the genus Sisyrinchium, some of which have blue or bluish flowers; cf. sisyrinchium n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American salt grass1704 wiregrass1751 Indian grass1765 buffalo grass1784 blue-eyed grass1785 mountain rice1790 nimble Will1816 yard-grass1822 mesquite1831 poverty-grass1832 tickle-moth1833 bunch-grass1837 naked-beard grass1848 needle grass1848 Means grass1858 toothache-grass1860 Johnson grass1873 Indian rice grass1893 nigger babies1897 St. Augustine grass1905 pinyon ricegrass1935 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 487 Sisyrinchium. Blue-Eyed Grass. Blossoms blue. 1865 Harper's Mag. Mar. 424 Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass He turned them into the river-lane; One after another he let them pass, Then fastened the meadow bars again. 1915 C. V. Piper & R. K. Beattie Flora Northwest Coast 105 Sisyrinchium. Blue-eyed Grass... Perennial tufted slender herbs. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xxxiii. 233 It winked with blue-eyed grass and yellow grassflowers. 2006 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 23 Mar. h30 At Chabot Regional Park, Bort Meadow and Grass Valley can be wall-to-wall blue-eyed grass and wild radish. blue-eyed Mary n. (a) any of several North American plants of the genus Collinsia (family Plantaginaceae) having bicoloured (blue or purple and white) flowers; esp. C. verna, an annual of eastern areas; (b) the southern European navelwort, Omphalodes verna, a low-growing creeping plant with bright blue flowers. ΚΠ 1887 Jrnl. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. July 53 Collinsia... verna... Blue eyed Mary. 1898 Gardeners' Chron. 2 July 4/2 Blue-eyed Mary, Omphalodes verna, in its blue and white varieties, and big patches of Dog-tooth Violets. 1913 H. S. Adams Flower Gardening 15 Is it too small a thing to bestow the name Mary's garden on a generous planting of ‘blue-eyed Mary’..? 1947 New Castle (Pa.) News 8 May 7 Some clumps of the fragile collinsia, the blue-eyed Mary. 2000 K. Levine Plant This! 21/2 Omphalodes verna (blue-eyed Mary): Politely colonizes by underground stems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1572
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