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bluer-eyed

bluer-eyed is the comparative form of blue-eyed.

Meaning of blue-eyed

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
  2. Naive; innocent; ingenuous.
  3. Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
    • blue-eyed performer
    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...

Questions about bluer-eyed

What is bluer-eyed the comparative form of?
Bluer-eyed is the comparative form of blue-eyed.

Words near bluer-eyed in the dictionary

  1. blueprinter
  2. blueprinters
  3. blueprinting
  4. blueprints
  5. bluer
  6. bluer-eyed
  7. Bluerina
  8. bluerinse
  9. bluerinses
  10. bluers
  11. blues

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