gooseberry-eyed

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English

Etymology

From gooseberry +‎ eyed.

Adjective

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

  1. (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 []

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