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blue-eyed

blue-eyed adjective: someone's favorite.

Adjective

blue-eyed (comparative more blue-eyed or bluer-eyed, superlative most blue-eyed or bluest-eyed)

  1. (idiomatic) Someone's favorite.
    • blue-eyed boy
    • “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...1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI
  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
    1. Written or performed by white people.
      • blue-eyed soul; blue-eyed jazz
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).
    • 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...
    • 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

blue-eyed meaning in Persian

blue-eyed in Persian

having blue eyes
چشم زاغ češm-zâġ

Forms of blue-eyed

comparativemore blue-eyed
comparativebluer-eyed
superlativemost blue-eyed
superlativebluest-eyed

Words formed from blue-eyed

Phrases with blue-eyed

Questions about blue-eyed

What does blue-eyed mean?
Blue-eyed means someone's favorite.
What is blue-eyed in Persian?
Blue-eyed in Persian is چشم زاغ (češm-zâġ). See Blue-eyed meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is blue-eyed?
Blue-eyed is an adjective.

Words near blue-eyed in the dictionary

  1. blue-ear disease
  2. blue-ear pig disease
  3. blue-eared kingfisher
  4. blue-eared kingfishers
  5. blue-eye
  6. blue-eyed
  7. blue-eyed boy
  8. blue-eyed boys
  9. blue-eyed cormorant
  10. blue-eyed cormorants
  11. blue-eyed grass

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