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green-eyed monsters

green-eyed monsters is the plural of green-eyed monster.

Meaning of green-eyed monster

Noun

green-eyed monster (plural green-eyed monsters)

  1. (colloquial, usually) Envy, jealousy, covetousness.
    • [Iago:] Oh, beware my Lord, of iealouſie, / It is the greene-ey'd Monſter, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Questions about green-eyed monsters

What is green-eyed monsters the plural of?
Green-eyed monsters is the plural of green-eyed monster.

Words near green-eyed monsters in the dictionary

  1. green-coat
  2. green-coats
  3. green-collar
  4. green-eyed
  5. green-eyed monster
  6. green-eyed monsters
  7. green-fingered
  8. green-finned
  9. green-flag
  10. green-flags
  11. green-flies

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