mope-eyed

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English

Adjective

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

  1. (archaic) short-sighted
    Synonym: purblind
    • c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!
    • 1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' Ink:
      Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests

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