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fish-eyed en · ADJ · etymology 1

Meanings

1. Having eyes like those of fish.
   • “You mean, like a tribe of fish-eyed monsters living down here?” 2012, Andy Remic, Toxicity, Solaris, →ISBN:
   • Our images were of miniscule fish-eyed creatures, with knobs and protrusions, the kind we had seen in biology books. 2019, Felicia Rosshandler, Landing in New York: Memoir Stories, →ISBN:
   • PETRA: Is a ravenous and deranged fish-eyed monster with a sickly complexion on Whisper Isle. 2017, H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King, →ISBN, page 8:
   • The bloody sea churned as thousands of sharp-toothed, fish-eyed monsters surged toward the man that had slain them in the world of the living. 2019, Tim Waggoner, Dark Ages Gangrel, Mystique Press, →ISBN:
2. Characterized by an unblinking stare that lacks warmth or friendliness.
   • Why should a homicide with all the obvious possibilities look like a bit of frame work for two men? Why? Both being such fine possibilities for the green room like they were, and being so nicely motivated, like they also were, could make a cop look very fish-eyed at the whole setup and wonder exactly what was behind that abundance of good suspects for a homicide. 1970, E[mil] Richard Johnson, The God Keepers, Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 96:
   • He flicked off his cigarette ash again and looked at me, fish-eyed. 1942 September 19, Albert Richard Wetjen, “Mr. Price Tones Down”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 215, number 12, page 98:
   • If you speak to one of these saffron-hued natives, especially to one of the children, you are generally met by a very curious, fish-eyed stare without a gleam of intelligence back of it, and you wait long before you get a reply. 1909 October, Marion Hamilton Carter, “The Vampire of the South”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 617:
   • Arturo sighed heavily and gave me a fish-eyed look, as if I was wasting his life by even being there. 2013, Axel Howerton, Hot Sinatra, Evolved Publishing, →ISBN, page 95:
3. Visually distorted as if seen through a fisheye lens.
   • The fish-eyed hole showed only an empty mauve hallway at first, but then a dot of yellow came in fast from the left and enlarged to fill the circumference of the view before receding toward the right, the direction of the elevators. 1995, Carroll Dale Short, The Shining Shining Path, Montgomery, Ala.: Black Belt Press, →ISBN, page 257:
   • The Alien is almost surreal to play, with its slightly fish-eyed view, breakneck speed, and ability to run across any surface from floor to ceiling, while the Predator’s toughness and power shine through above the puny humans, who must rely on faster weapons, armor, and decent speed to survive. 1999 July, Jason D’Aprile, “Aliens versus Predator”, in PC Accelerator, number 11, page 74:
   • The high-camera view was excellent, giving the impression you’re watching from the stands, but the stumpcam produced a very fish-eyed picture. 2001 April, Alex Kidman, “The revolution will not be televised”, in Australian Personal Computer, page 34:
4. Having a fisheye lens.
   • Any moment now, someone is going to notice us on one of the hundreds of fish-eyed cameras built into the walls and rafters. 2015, Alexandra Duncan, Sound, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 140:
   • In the final scene, the fish-eyed camera plummets headlong down the rope toward the ground in the idiom of the helmet-cammed bungee jump. 2010, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 72:
   • Arriving at the closed door, he knocked, and then looked up to the discreetly mounted fish-eyed camera that was at the ceiling. 2023, J. R. Ward [pen name; Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore], Forever, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 284:

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Coordinates

glassy-eyed · dead-eyed

Relateds

fisheye · walleyed

fish-eyed en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of fish-eye
   form of fish-eye

Forms