cat's-eyed

Adjective

cat's-eyed (not comparable)

1. Having eyes like a cat's.
   • And in those quarters, who knows, there may be, lurking behind a paper screen, some affected cat's-eyed little woman, whom perhaps in two or three days (having no time to lose) I shall marry!!1897, Pierre Loti, translated by Laura Ensor, Madame Chrysanthème, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 20
   • A long-muscled, cat's-eyed, electric dancer from Argentina.1969 August 1, Vogue, New York, page 22
2. Having a spot or spots that resembling the eyes of a cat.
3. Furnished with cat's eyes (reflective road markers).
   • Soon he was out on the coast road, a broad highway through the sand-dunes which he knew from his morning's drive had an excellent surface and was well cat's-eyed on the bends.1953, Ian Fleming, “Black Hare and Grey Hound”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 104
4. Resembling the gemstone cat's eye; chatoyant.
   • It is cat's-eyed ſometimes, like the Labrador ſtone, but the colours have not the ſame brilliancy or intenſity[.]1789, “Foreign Literary Intelligence”, in Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume LXVIII, London, page 481
5. Having keen eyesight, like a cat.
   • Shortly after making the turn, his lookouts reported a destroyer bearing NE by E. Ralph Talbot actually was out there but (according to her log) she must have been a good ten miles away — too far to be seen, even by a cat’s-eyed Japanese lookout.1975, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Struggle For Guadalcanal, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 36