fish-eye
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of fisheye.
- 1941, W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield), “The Great Man”, in W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1973, page 391:
- The girl gives him the fish-eye.
- 2000, George P. Pelecanos, Shame the Devil, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 10:
- And the driver, some kind of cop, had given him the fish-eye as he passed.
Verb
[edit]fish-eye (third-person singular simple present fish-eyes, present participle fish-eyeing, simple past and past participle fish-eyed)
- Alternative form of fisheye.
- 1979, Edwin Torres, “After Hours”, in Carlito’s Way, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1993, page 194:
- The two broads were fish-eyein’ me.
- 1989, Glen Cook, “Shadow Games”, in The Black Company Goes South (The Black Company), SFBC Fantasy, published 2002, page 196:
- She fish-eyed me a good ten seconds before she told somebody to hand me my stuff.
- 2014, Kieran Shea, Koko Takes a Holiday, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 103:
- “You just fish-eyed me, boy. Don’t tell me it’s nothing. Hey! I’m talking to you.”