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English
Adjective
ox-eyed (comparative more ox-eyed, superlative most ox-eyed)
- Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox.
- Synonym: cow-eyed
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:Homer useth that epithite of ox-eyed, in describing Juno, because a round black eye is the best
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