blue-eyed
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English
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Adjective
[edit]- (idiomatic) Someone's favorite.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
- “I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.” “Oh, much the same as the rest of us.” “Nonsense!” “Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.” “He did that a lot?” “Almost daily.”
- Naive; innocent; ingenuous. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
- blue-eyed performer
- 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, “Savior”, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, page 199:
- Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the “blue-eyed devil white man” had brainwashed the “so-called Negro.”
- (music) Written or performed by white people.
- blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 251:
- Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- blue-eyed black lemur (Eulemur flavifrons)
- blue-eyed boy
- blue-eyed cockatoo (Cacatua ophthalmica)
- blue-eyed cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps)
- blue-eyed darner (Aeshna multicolor)
- blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium spp.)
- blue-eyed Mary
- blue-eyed shag (Leucocarbo atriceps)
- blue-eyed soul
- blue-eyed triplefin (Notoclinops segmentatus)
Translations
[edit]having blue eyes
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naive
References
[edit]- “blue-eyed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.