mope-eyed

English

Adjective

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

(archaic) short-sighted
Synonym: purblind
- c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!
- 1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' Ink‎:
  Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests

References

“mope-eyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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