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side-eying

side-eying is the present participle and gerund of side-eye.

Meaning of side-eye

Verb

side-eye (third-person singular simple present side-eyes, present participle side-eyeing or (rare) side-eying, simple past and past participle side-eyed)

  1. (transitive) To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner.
    • When I'm working my attention isn't caught straight ahead into the blinkered page, it's side eyeing whatever's peripheral, whatever's random.2003, Faye Kicknosway, “Hat Trick”, in Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xiv

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Forms of side-eying

alternative formside eying

Questions about side-eying

What is side-eying the present participle and gerund of?
Side-eying is the present participle and gerund of side-eye.

Words near side-eying in the dictionary

  1. side-effects
  2. side-eye
  3. side-eyed
  4. side-eyeing
  5. side-eyes
  6. side-eying
  7. side-foot
  8. side-gaze
  9. side-glance
  10. side-glances
  11. side-hand

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