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mope-eyed

mope-eyed adjective: short-sighted.

Adjective

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

  1. (archaic) short-sighted
    • What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the...
    • Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' Ink
    Synonyms:
    purblind

Synonyms of mope-eyed

Forms of mope-eyed

comparativemore mope-eyed
superlativemost mope-eyed

Questions about mope-eyed

What does mope-eyed mean?
Mope-eyed means short-sighted.
What part of speech is mope-eyed?
Mope-eyed is an adjective.

Words near mope-eyed in the dictionary

  1. mopboard
  2. mopboards
  3. mope
  4. mope about
  5. mope around
  6. mope-eyed
  7. moped
  8. moped about
  9. moped around
  10. mopedist
  11. mopedists

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