gooseberry-eyed

English

Etymology

gooseberry +‎ eyed

Adjective

gooseberry-eyed (comparative more gooseberry-eyed, superlative most gooseberry-eyed)

(archaic, British slang) Having prominent and dull grey eyes.
- 1871, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, The Member for Paris, page 31:
  He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]

Related terms

gooseberry eye

References

[Francis Grose] (1788) “Gooseberry-eyed”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry-eyed”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.

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