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eyethurl

eyethurl noun: a window.

Noun

eyethurl (plural eyethurls)

  1. (humorous, rare) A window.
    • A kidcote is a special name for a prison. Some kidcotes don’t even have an eyethurl. What is an eyethurl? An eyethurl is a window such as the one through which the lovely Rapunzel let down her crinets. […] Note: For dretching the curly crineted child with a fearbabe, the killbuck was sent to a...1977, Susan Kelz Sperling, Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson N. Potter, →ISBN, pages 31 and 53
    • Hark! What light through yonder eyethurl breaks.1978, Stuart Diamond, Paul S. Lorris, It’s in Your Power: The Concerned Energy Consumer’s Survival Kit, New York, N.Y.: Rawson Associates Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 135, column 2

Examples of eyethurl in a sentence

  • Some kidcotes don’t even have an eyethurl.1977, Susan Kelz Sperling, Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson N. Potter, →ISBN, pages 31 and...
  • I was watching the sunset through our eyethurl when I heard strange slurping noises just a wurp away.1979, Susan Kelz Sperling, The New Book of Knowledge Annual 1979, Danbury, Conn.: Grolier, →ISBN, page 319:
  • There he saw a bellibone sticking her head out of an eyethurl and crying. […] He threw the rope up to the eyethurl.1979 September 24, Lauren Calobrisi, “[Fun, Games & Stuff: Kidsday] Story Time: The Kotee and the Bellibone”, in Newsday, Suffolk edition...
  • Glancing out the eyethurl of her modest cosh, she saw a blue scrow—a good sign for a new day.1985, Cathryn Berger Kaye, Word Works: Why the Alphabet Is a Kid’s Best Friend (A Brown Paper School Book), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown...

Forms of eyethurl

pluraleyethurls

Origin of eyethurl

Revived from Old English ēagþyrel (possibly for puristic reasons). Popularized by Susan Kelz Sperling’s 1977 book Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words (See quotation). By surface analysis, eye + thurl (“hole”).

Questions about eyethurl

What does eyethurl mean?
Eyethurl means a window.
How do you use eyethurl in a sentence?
Some kidcotes don’t even have an eyethurl.
What part of speech is eyethurl?
Eyethurl is a noun.
What is the plural of eyethurl?
The plural of eyethurl is eyethurls.

Words near eyethurl in the dictionary

  1. eyestrings
  2. eyestripe
  3. eyestripes
  4. eyeteeth
  5. eyeth
  6. eyethurl
  7. eyethurls
  8. Eyetie
  9. Eyeties
  10. eyetooth
  11. eyetracker

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