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blue-eyed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Someone's favorite.
   • “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.” 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
   • blue-eyed boy
2. Naive; innocent; ingenuous.
3. Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
   • blue-eyed performer
   • 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.” 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, “Savior”, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, page 199:
4. Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian. ▸ Written or performed by white people.
   • blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).
   • Iconic Barbie may be blonder, bluer-eyed, richer, thinner, leggier and bustier than everyone else, but she's also “not special” and “disposable.” 2016 February 4, Meghan Daum, “Curvy or no, Barbie is still a mean girl”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2016:
   • Then, the voice of the oldest of the Lay brothers, the leader of the pack, the tallest, the blackest-haired, the bluest-eyed. 2007, Melissa Benn, “1939”, in One of Us, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 31:
   • 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. 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:
   • They were all of the same type. Rosy, blooming, fair-haired girls, with small straight features, and the mother’s bright blue eyes, but Bonny was the rosiest and the bluest-eyed of them all. 1874, Dora Russell, “A New Home”, in The Vicar’s Governess. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 19:

Forms

Coordinates

black-eyed · green-eyed · hazel-eyed · red-eyed · brown-eyed

Deriveds

blue-eyed shag · blue-eyed boy · blue-eyed Mary · blue-eyed grass · blue-eyed soul · blue-eyed cockatoo · blue-eyed black lemur · blue-eyed darner · blue-eyed cormorant · blue-eyed triplefin

Translations (52)

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