green-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more green-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: greener-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most green-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: greenest-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having green eyes.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: It was Floss—Floss, smaller, queerer, greener-eyed, and more defiant than ever; but internally, nevertheless, in a state of intense excitement and delight at the thought of seeing Aunty ’Genia again, hearing more dolls’ stories, possibly—who could say?—seeing those venerable ladies themselves.
“Sixteen years old I was,” laughed Hannah, “and greener-eyed and more freckled-faced than you’ve ever seen me, pettie.”
Catch me in a trap set with old dried-up cheese rind, if you can, or any other trap, for that matter. It is only very young and very conceited people who get caught in them. But the horrid cat! The worst-looking, greenest-eyed monster that ever was in league with a mouse trap!
“Tea?” asked a honeyed masculine voice near her left ear. / “Or sherry?” inquired an identical voice from her right. / Quick as a pair of foxes, the twins took up flanking positions on the sofa, pinning her neatly in between. Glancing from one to the other, she laughed. “At the moment, I’m not sure.” / The greener-eyed one—Leo, she believed—sent her a dashing smile. “Not to worry, there are plenty of hours left in the evening.”
[S]he looked sandier-haired and greener-eyed than ever. […] She was looking at him stealthily, with her great green eyes flashing. […] Later, as he lay in bed, a foot or two from the sea-green eyes, now closed, and the sandy hair, now done up under a nightcap, he thought about the other part of his scheme.
‘We’re not Angels. Angels are far more powerfully magical, far greener-eyed—’
gloss: Jealous; envious.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: There is a startling vision of invasion in the air, which gives a certain piquancy to the narrative, especially as on the surface of the people’s seriousness of anticipation, if it cannot be called fear, there floats a sort of laughing incredulity—as if they did not believe that Napoleon would come, or be able to come, or that, if he did come, it would matter so much as the greener-eyed tremblers imagined.
That is the way these jealous husbands bid an affectionate adieu to the partner of their sorrows, not of their joys, and go to the city to be devoured with curiosity as to what their wives are doing in their absence, and to come back greener-eyed than ever.
And Betsey believed herself to have been slighted, and her wrath grew hot against the young man, and her envy greener-eyed against the girl, who continued to secure so many things which in justice should have been hers; […]
Three cows, her dower was, no less. But three cows or ten, she was a lucky piece to be wedding Barney Callan, poor as he was. For he was a sweet-eyed, smiling-faced boy, with a merry word for everybody straight out of his kind heart, and no one, not even the greenest-eyed backbiter in all Connaught could have it that the three cows it was caught Barney and not Honora’s black twist o’ hair and her hard and shining eyes.
[Y]ou will win your own particular war, provided you keep early hours, take swimming and gymnastics, avoid the temptation of quick lunches, or, still more fatal, rushed breakfasts. For if in your haste your meals do not altogether “take to you,” you will sympathize with the small children who, when called upon to define a “green-eyed monster,” wavered between “a whale” and “a teacher who does not take to you,” and finally finished up with what for them was the greenest-eyed of all—indigestion.
“Weena,” know that we look to you to ride life over the hurdles of success with the same firm seat that has held you on the backs of the greenest-eyed devils in the Artillery stables.
I do not think that any other vagary of the feminine mind—and goodness knows it is curious enough in the way it works its wonders to perform—is so inexplicable as the jealousy so many wives have of their husbands’ business. They can really get greener-eyed over that than they could over a platinum blonde stenographer.
“It’s not MacLeod and Miles I worry about. They have sweethearts. It’s Jim Kelly who makes me greener-eyed than I am by nature, but at least I don’t see you alone with him of late. Are you still engaged?”
Hal may not treasure my heart, but he owns it through and through—just one of those ill-fated chemical attractions from which there’s no escape—and the thought of someone spending fourteen years with him makes me more green-eyed than I already am.
“[…] You are mine, and I don’t share!” he said, giving me the greenest-eyed stare.
Related words: green-eyed monster
green with envy
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