side-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌaɪ/
Forms: form: side-eyes
form: side-eyeing
form: side-eying
form: side-eyed
form: side-eyed
form: side eye
Etymology: From side + eye.
Senses: examples: text: When I'm working my attention isn't caught straight ahead into the blinkered page, it's side eyeing whatever's peripheral, whatever's random.
ref: 2003, Faye Kicknosway, “Hat Trick”, in Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xiv:
text: When we fell out in front for the trek to breakfast, we side-eyed Walter when he walked out the door. Me looking to find some something. In his eyes. In his walk. In the pores of his skin. Some sign. Any sign.
ref: 2004, Lee Stringer, chapter 20, in Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, →ISBN, page 119:
text: But I do have to side-eye the fact that the interviews w/ the Jacksons are being aired in between episodes that deal with men being molested as children…it seems like it was intentional and that ish ain’t cool.
ref: 2010 November 2, “Liberian Girl” [pseudonym] (commenter), “Hot Shot: Oprah [Winfrey] Visits Michael Jackson’s Children”, in That Grape Juice.net, archived from the original on 25 May 2017:
text: The show went well. Not the best on the tour, not even the best in the past month, but it went off without a hitch, despite everyone on the crew side-eyeing Dan, looking for him to start acting strange again.
ref: 2014, Z. Rider, chapter 7, in Ashley Davis, editor, Suckers: A Horror Novel, Erwin, Tenn.: Dark Ride Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Seven months after his poolside epiphany, the 26-year-old [Taylor Hall] is sitting on a couch at Newark's Prudential Center, slugging from a protein shake and side-eying NHL Network highlights on the television.
ref: 2018 April 12, Alex Prewitt, “Taylor Hall Raises the Bar for Himself, Devils in MVP-Caliber Season”, in Sports Illustrated, New York, N.Y.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2018:
text: "She'll be all right", says [Tionne] Watkins, side-eyeing [Rozonda] Thomas with a cat-like grin.
ref: 2019 June 1, Nosheen Iqbal, “TLC: ‘I will never forget the day we were millionaires for five minutes’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2019:
text: A new study of activity and mortality in older women [...] also side-eyes the validity, utility and origin of the common 10,000-steps-a-day exercise goals built into so many of our phones and activity monitors and suggests, instead, that any moving, whether or not it counts as exercise, may help to extend people’s lives.
ref: 2019 June 16, Gretchen Reynolds, “You may not need to take 10,000 steps a day to reduce risk of heart disease, finds women’s study”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2019:
glosses: To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner.
Related terms: english: especially the second sense
translation: especially the second sense
word: squint