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black-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having a black eye.
2. Having the iris of a black color.
   • The black pup sits there, listening, watching. Momma looks at him. “If you aren’t the blackest-eyed dog I’ve ever seen,” she says. “We'll start calling you Blacky.[…]” 2014, Harold E. Grice, “Born Young”, in California Country Boy, book I (Born Young: 1933 to 1937), Pacific Grove, Calif.: Park Place Publications, →ISBN, page 7:
   • This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red. 1966, Paul West, chapter 16, in Alley Jaggers, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
   • Equally intolerable to her family was her desire, when the time came, to go with the blackest-eyed teenage boy in the tabor. 1995, Isabel Fonseca, “Out of the Mouth of Papusza: A Cautionary Tale”, in Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 4:
3. as a part of a phrase
   • black-eyed pea
   • black-eyed Susan

Forms

Translations (1)

unm sëkshenkwe (having a black eye (injury))