blue-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-eyed
form: bluer-eyed
form: most blue-eyed
form: bluest-eyed
Senses: examples: text: blue-eyed boy
text: “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.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
glosses: Someone's favorite.
glosses: Naive; innocent; ingenuous.
examples: text: blue-eyed performer
text: Elijah Muhammad spoke of how in this wilderness of North America, for centuries the “blue-eyed devil white man” had brainwashed the “so-called Negro.”
ref: 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, “Savior”, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, page 199:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
examples: text: blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
Written or performed by white people.
examples: text: Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: They were all of the same type. Rosy, blooming, fair-haired girls, with small straight features, and the mother’s bright blue eyes, but Bonny was the rosiest and the bluest-eyed of them all.
ref: 1874, Dora Russell, “A New Home”, in The Vicar’s Governess. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 19:
text: Then, the voice of the oldest of the Lay brothers, the leader of the pack, the tallest, the blackest-haired, the bluest-eyed.
ref: 2007, Melissa Benn, “1939”, in One of Us, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Iconic Barbie may be blonder, bluer-eyed, richer, thinner, leggier and bustier than everyone else, but she's also “not special” and “disposable.”
ref: 2016 February 4, Meghan Daum, “Curvy or no, Barbie is still a mean girl”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2016:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).
Coordinate terms: black-eyed
brown-eyed
green-eyed
hazel-eyed
red-eyed
Derived terms: taxonomic: Eulemur flavifrons
word: blue-eyed black lemur
word: blue-eyed boy
taxonomic: Cacatua ophthalmica
word: blue-eyed cockatoo
taxonomic: Leucocarbo atriceps
word: blue-eyed cormorant
taxonomic: Aeshna multicolor
word: blue-eyed darner
taxonomic: Sisyrinchium spp.
word: blue-eyed grass
word: blue-eyed Mary
taxonomic: Leucocarbo atriceps
word: blue-eyed shag
word: blue-eyed soul
taxonomic: Notoclinops segmentatus
word: blue-eyed triplefin