<span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-words) A <span class="searchmatch">word</span> encountered more often in writing than in speech, and thus liable to be pronounced incorrectly. 1908, Edward Kirby Putnam...
<span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-words plural of <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-<span class="searchmatch">word</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-catcher <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-catching <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-catchingly <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> chart <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-clean <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> color <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> colour <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> contact eyecup -<span class="searchmatch">eyed</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> dialect <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> doctor eyedrop <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>-drop <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>...
P-<span class="searchmatch">word</span>, p-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> Pygmalion <span class="searchmatch">word</span> quadword question <span class="searchmatch">word</span> Q-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> q-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> qword reduced <span class="searchmatch">word</span> reserved <span class="searchmatch">word</span> re-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> root <span class="searchmatch">word</span> R-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> r-<span class="searchmatch">word</span> safeword safe <span class="searchmatch">word</span> SAT...
A pun on the letter I and the <span class="searchmatch">word</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>. the Three-<span class="searchmatch">Eye</span> League (US, baseball, historical, humorous) Synonym of Three-I League....
WOTD – 12 May 2024 From Middle English appel of the eie (“pupil of the <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>; cornea; (figurative) something highly valued”), from Old English æppel on...
See also: evil-<span class="searchmatch">eye</span> WOTD – 13 July 2023 From Middle English ivel eie (“evil <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>; envy”), from Old English eage yfel, a calque of Latin oculus malus, from...
See also: red <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>, redeye, and Red <span class="searchmatch">Eye</span> WOTD – 23 May 2020 red <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>, redeye The noun is derived from red + <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”)...
to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) criquinne f (plural criquinnes) (Jersey, childish, anatomy) <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> (usual <span class="searchmatch">word</span>) yi (childish) cricot...
Etymology scriptorium.) cricot m (plural cricots) (Jersey, childish, anatomy) <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> (usual <span class="searchmatch">word</span>) yi (childish) criquinne cricot d'contact (“contact lens”)...