fisheyed

Adjective

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

1. Having eyes like those of fish.
   • “You mean, like a tribe of fish-eyed monsters living down here?”2012, Andy Remic, Toxicity, Solaris, →ISBN
2. Characterized by an unblinking stare that lacks warmth or friendliness.
   • If you speak to one of these saffron-hued natives, especially to one of the children, you are generally met by a very curious, fish-eyed stare without a gleam of intelligence back of it, and you wait long before you get a reply.1909 October, Marion Hamilton Carter, “The Vampire of the South”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 6, page 617
3. Visually distorted as if seen through a fisheye lens.
   • The fish-eyed hole showed only an empty mauve hallway at first, but then a dot of yellow came in fast from the left and enlarged to fill the circumference of the view before receding toward the right, the direction of the elevators.1995, Carroll Dale Short, The Shining Shining Path, Montgomery, Ala.: Black Belt Press, →ISBN, page 257
4. Having a fisheye lens.
   • In the final scene, the fish-eyed camera plummets headlong down the rope toward the ground in the idiom of the helmet-cammed bungee jump.2010, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 72

Verb

fisheye (third-person singular simple present fisheyes, present participle fisheyeing or (rare) fisheying, simple past and past participle fisheyed)

1. (transitive) To glance unfriendlily or suspiciously at.
   • She fisheyed our entrycards, looking to see if we’d remagnetized them to untoward purpose.1988, Jack Womack, Terraplane, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 27

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