eye-pit
eye-pit noun: the eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
Noun
eye-pit (plural eye-pits)
- The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
- His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Forms of eye-pit
| plural | eye-pits |
|---|---|
| alternative form | eyepit |
| alternative form | eye pit |
| alternative form (obsolete) | eie-pit |
Origin of eye-pit
From Middle English eye-put, heyeput, eȝe-put, equivalent to eye + pit.
Questions about eye-pit
- What does eye-pit mean?
- Eye-pit means the eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
- What part of speech is eye-pit?
- Eye-pit is a noun.
- What is the plural of eye-pit?
- The plural of eye-pit is eye-pits.
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