blue-eyed

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blue-eyed

1. (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.”

2. Naive; innocent; ingenuous. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.

   blue-eyed performer

   • 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, “Savior”, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, page 199:

     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.”

   1. (music) Written or performed by white people.

      blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue,‎ eyed (or eye, -ed).
   • 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:

     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.

• “blue-eyed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.