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gooseberry-eyed

gooseberry-eyed adjective: having prominent and dull grey eyes.

Adjective

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

  1. (British, archaic, slang) Having prominent and dull grey eyes.
    • He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]1871, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, The Member for Paris, page 31

Forms of gooseberry-eyed

comparativemore gooseberry-eyed
superlativemost gooseberry-eyed

Origin of gooseberry-eyed

From gooseberry + eyed.

Questions about gooseberry-eyed

What does gooseberry-eyed mean?
Gooseberry-eyed means having prominent and dull grey eyes.
What part of speech is gooseberry-eyed?
Gooseberry-eyed is an adjective.

Words near gooseberry-eyed in the dictionary

  1. gooseberry tarts
  2. gooseberry tree
  3. gooseberry trees
  4. gooseberry wig
  5. gooseberry wigs
  6. gooseberry-eyed
  7. gooseberry-grinder
  8. gooseberry-grinders
  9. gooseberry-picker
  10. gooseberry-pickers
  11. gooseberrying

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