sloe-eyed

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊˌaɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊˌaɪd/

Adjective

sloe-eyed (not comparable)

1. Having dark eyes.
   • 1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance:

     Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.

   • 1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 19, in The Sheriff's Son:

     Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.

   • 1918, Zane Grey, chapter 35, in The U. P. Trail:

     [S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.

   • 1971, Stephen Sondheim, I'm Still Here (Follies song):

     First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.

Translations

having dark eyes

• Bulgarian: черноок (černook)
• Hungarian: kökényszemű (hu)
• Polish: ciemnooki (pl)
• Russian: черногла́зый (ru) m (černoglázyj)