roaming eye
roaming eye is the alternative form of roving eye.
Meaning of roving eye
Noun
roving eye (plural roving eyes)
- Wide-ranging observation of one's surroundings.
- Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Nineteenth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC
- The personal characteristic of taking amorous interest in people other than one's own spouse or regular romantic partner.
- This dame she was new-fangled
And of a roving eye. . . .
"Beshrew me," quoth King Arthur,
"I think thou be'st not true!"1858, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 4, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry
- This dame she was new-fangled
Forms of roaming eye
| plural | roaming eyes |
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Questions about roaming eye
- What is roaming eye the alternative form of?
- Roaming eye is the alternative form of roving eye.
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