blue-eyed
English
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Adjective
blue-eyed
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eye, -ed.
- (idiomatic) Someone's favorite.
- blue-eyed boy
- 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.
- Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
- blue-eyed performer
- (music) Written or performed by white people.
- blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz
Coordinate terms
- black-eyed
- brown-eyed
- green-eyed
- hazel-eyed
- red-eyed
Derived terms
- 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
having blue eyes
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naive
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References
- “blue-eyed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.