gooseberry-eyed
English
Adjective
gooseberry-eyed (comparative more gooseberry-eyed, superlative most gooseberry-eyed)
- (archaic, British slang) Having prominent and dull grey eyes.
- 1871, Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville, The Member for Paris, page 31:
- He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]
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References
- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Gooseberry-eyed”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 3, page 183
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