boss-eyed

Adjective

boss-eyed (comparative more boss-eyed, superlative most boss-eyed)

1. Cross-eyed; squinting.
   • "[…] That aint dishonest—so you needn't look boss-eyed at me […]"1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 187
   • We should change our hours of sitting because the nation can not properly be represented by Members who become boss-eyed workaholics because they start at 9:30 in the morning and work through until after midnight.1990, Harriet Harman, in Hansard, 7 December, 1990, [www.hansard-corpus.org]
2. Blind in one eye; having one injured eye.
   • "'Thou shouldst a' married, Jock,' said I.
     "He gurgled in his cup and set it down; his good eye turned upon us, twinkling.
     "'And where's the maid would look on boss-eyed Jock?' he said.1906, Dion Clayton Calthrop, King Peter, London: Duckworth, page 220
   • "There's some roads a man has to be led, an' there's some roads a boss-eyed man can only follow wi' one eye shut. But this road can't be lost by a blind man nor a boss-eyed man nor a cripple and he's neither, thank God."1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter V, in The Rainbow, page 130