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单词 swine-eyed
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swine-eyed
swine-eyed adj. [compare German schweinsäugig (early 19th cent.)] having eyes likened to those of a pig, esp. in being small and deep-set; cf. swine eye n.
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1654 in J. Collinges Provocator Provocatus App. 192 There are abundance of swine-eyed men in the world; of all Creatures in the world that ye know, or looke on, a swine hath externally the worst eye.
1861 All Year Round 30 Mar. 135/1 A lot of..swine-eyed, split-hoofed..politicians.
1920 Argosy-Allstory Weekly 4 Sept. 49/2 The greasy, swine-eyed Turk who roamed from seaport to seaport trading cheap jewelry and live stock.
1999 S. Holman Dress Lodger ii. 21 Over by the door, did they observe..the swine-eyed old man whose nose has been eaten down to a snout by syphilis?
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