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English
Etymology
From gooseberry + eyed.
Adjective
gooseberry-eyed (comparative more gooseberry-eyed, superlative most gooseberry-eyed)
- (archaic, British slang) Having prominent and dull grey eyes.
1871, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, The Member for Paris, page 31:He was a small, smug-faced, gooseberry-eyed man, quick in his movements, glib with his tongue, and full of the quaint shop-courtesy of eighty years ago […]
References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Gooseberry-eyed”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry-eyed”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume III, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 183.