fisheyed
See also: fish-eyed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fisheyed (not comparable)
- Alternative form of fish-eyed.
- 1933, Census of India, 1931, Delhi: Manager of Publications, page 457:
- In Madura the fisheyed goddess Minakshi is annually so married with great pomp and éclat, but in the villages the goddess is still the real deity and protectress of the people rather than the recognised Hindu gods.
- 1932 March 1, “Prof. I. Will Flunkum Spills the Latest”, in The Crescent, volume XLIII, number 9, Newberg, Ore., page three:
- His latest report finds that in many schools students are bored to a fisheyed coma by the sonorous turgidity of the tommy[-]rot taught backwards which, is used to prevent students from learning the truth.
- 1943 April 24, “Picture of a Movie City Editor By a Real One”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 76, number 17, page 110:
- He’s the dour, despicable, fisheyed creature whose fearless glance is feared by innocent and guilty alike, and who, to coin a bromide, is prepared to shake the community to its very foundations by giving the word.
- 2014, Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 341:
- He ceased his banging, and in the spy hole she saw him, fisheyed, standing rigid, hands behind his back.
- 2014, Tom Harper [pseudonym; Edwin Thomas], Zodiac Station, Hodder & Stoughton, published 2015, →ISBN, page 273:
- I picked up the pill jar and put it right against my eye. The plastic showed me a fisheyed, amber world.
- 2015, Geoff Herbach, “After the Party”, in Nick Healy, Kristen Mohn, Nate LeBoutillier, Lindsy O’Brien, editors, Love & Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life, Switch Press, Capstone, →ISBN, part three (Love & Madness), page 114:
- She looked at me, fisheyed, and shook.
Verb
[edit]fisheyed
- simple past and past participle of fisheye