gooseberry-eyed

gooseberry-eyed

English

Etymology

gooseberry +‎ eyed

Adjective

gooseberry-eyed (comparative more gooseberry-eyed, superlative most gooseberry-eyed)

1. (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 […]

Related terms

• gooseberry eye

References

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Gooseberry-eyed”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 3, page 183