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blackeyed

blackeyed is the alternative spelling of black-eyed.

Meaning of black-eyed

Adjective

black-eyed (comparative more black-eyed or blacker-eyed, superlative most black-eyed or blackest-eyed)

  1. Having a black eye.
  2. Having the iris of a black color.
    • 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
  3. as a part of a phrase
    • black-eyed pea

Questions about blackeyed

What is blackeyed the alternative spelling of?
Blackeyed is the alternative spelling of black-eyed.

Words near blackeyed in the dictionary

  1. blackette
  2. blackettes
  3. Blacketts
  4. blackey
  5. blackeye
  6. blackeyed
  7. blackeyes
  8. blackeys
  9. blackface
  10. blackfaced
  11. blackfaces

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