boss-eyedadj.
dialect and slang.
Having only one good eye; squint-eyed, cross-eyed. Also figurative oblique, crooked, one-sided.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed
wall-eyeda1400
thwartingc1430
gleed1482
pink-eyed1519
goggle1540
squint1579
squint-eyed1589
squinted1591
squinting1611
moon-eyed1623
squink-eyed1632
asquint1643
skew-eyed1658
cockeyed1751
yaw-sighted1751
swivel-eyed1758
cross-eyed1791
slew-eyed1807
skellied1821
squinny-eyeda1825
strabismic1855
boss-eyed1860
strabismical1866
hyperphoric1887
strabismal1891
heterophoric1894
squinty1922
squinty1925
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew
obliquate?a1425
cama1600
ajee1816
askew1831
skew-whiff1839
splay1873
catawampous1885
skewgee1890
cockeye1891
boss-eyed1898
skewy1898
cockeyed1899
squiffy1941
akimbo1943
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2)
1882 E. L. Chamberlain Gloss. W. Worcs. Words Boss-eyed, squinting.
1890 J. S. Farmer Slang Boss, to miss one's aim; to make such a shot as a boss-eyed person would be expected to make. Boss-shot is a common phrase.
1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) The horse shied and we ran up against the gate-post, and knocked the step of the cart all boss-eyed.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xi. 214 It is unlucky for a cross-eyed woman to look at you... When somebody who is boss-eyed goes by you spit on the ground.
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adj.1860