eyesies

eyesies noun: eyes.

Noun

eyesies pl (plural only)

(childish, plural, plural-only) Eyes.
- “Go to sleep, my darling, / Go to sleep, my pet, / Close your little eyesies, / All your cares forget.”1902, Marshall Saunders, “A Lodge by the Sea”, in Beautiful Joe’s Paradise or The Island of Brotherly Love, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page and Company, page 115
- “Hide your little eyesies.” He felt the pressure of her hand and she led him into the room. The clammy touch was gone. “Now you can look around.”1923, [Homer Croy], chapter XXI, in West of the Water Tower, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 324
(plural, plural-only) The act of flirtation using the eyes.
- But when he looked her way she was taking a break and the guy she was playing eyesies with was the bull[-]necked bouncer.1957, “The Great Cross-Country Girl Hunt”, in Glamour Photography, section “How to Make the Kill”, page 7, column 2
- Don’t play eyesies with him, causing him to upset the coffee. Be demure and turn away your eyes, it says here.1960, Marc Spinelli, Beauty and the Beast, Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 144

We saw them with our own little eyesies yesterday but didn’t ever expect we’d see the day when a major college stadium offered such rare ducats for public purchase.1941 October 24, R. A. Lofstrom, “Right and Left in Sports”, in The St. Cloud Daily Times, eightieth year, number 113, St. Cloud, Minn....
And he looked up at me with those eyesies of his.1984, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated by Lanford Wilson, Three Sisters, Smith and Kraus, →ISBN, page 45:
“Oh Olympio, my little teddy bear, darling, honey baby, sweetie pie, let me kiss your eyesies, lovey dovey bunny buns, let me make you happy PLEEEASE!”1995, Plautus, “Casina”, in Robert Wind, transl., Three Comedies, Lanham, Md.; New York, N.Y.; London: University Press of America, →ISBN...
Who has the biggest eyesies in Agramstadt?2011, Miljenko Jergović, chapter IV, in Stephen M. Dickey, transl., Ruta Tannenbaum, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN...

From eye + -sies.

What does eyesies mean?: Eyesies means eyes.
How do you use eyesies in a sentence?: We saw them with our own little eyesies yesterday but didn’t ever expect we’d see the day when a major college stadium offered such rare ducats for public purchase.
What part of speech is eyesies?: Eyesies is a noun.

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